2.1 Prerequisites

Warning: The documentation is for the future PyQwt-5.0 which is only available from CVS. A snapshot, PyQwt5-20061017.tar.gz, is available. Please refer, to the documentation in the snapshot when you use the snapshot.

Build prerequisites for PyQwt5-20061017.tar.gz:

Python.
Supported versions: Python-2.5.x, Python-2.4.x, and Python-2.3.x.
Qt.
Supported versions: Qt-4.2.x, Qt-4.1.x, Qt-3.3.x, and Qt-3.2.x.
sip-4.5.2.tar.gz.
Supported versions: sip-4.5.x, and sip-4.4.x.
Either PyQt-x11-gpl-3.17.tar.gz, or PyQt-mac-gpl-3.17.tar.gz, or PyQt4-x11-gpl-4.1.1.tar.gz, or PyQt-mac-gpl-4.1.1.tar.gz.
Supported versions: PyQt-4.1.x, PyQt-4.0.x, PyQt-3.17.x, and PyQt-3.16.x.

The source package PyQwt5-20061017.tar.gz contains a SVN snapshot of the not yet released Qwt-5.0.0 library. Since the API of the Qwt-5.0.0 is still unstable, it is best to compile and link those sources statically into PyQwt.

To exploit the full power of the QwtPlot widget, you should install at least one the Numerical Python extensions: NumPy, numarray, or Numeric.

I am using NumPy-1.0.1.tar.gz, numarray-1.5.2.tar.gz, and Numeric-24.2.tar.gz. NumPy is actively developed and recommended. numarray and Numeric are unmaintained.