installing ipython notebook

Install ZMQ manually:

tar xvf zeromq-2.1.11.tar.gz
cd zeromq-2.1.11/
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

Then install ipython with zmq:

sudo easy_install ipython[zmq,test]

There was an error on completion but zmq bindings were installed and

ipython notebook

works.

Now install matplotlib:

sudo apt-get install python-dev libfreetype6-dev --- yes. This seems correct.
sudo easy_install matplotlib ---- No: this attempted to compile, and failed.

sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib # that was easy....


$ ipython notebook --pylab=inline