Just ran into this problem in Jaunty when testing smem (mentioned on this weeks LWN front page), and also described in the smem list archive here by someone else: http://selenic.com/pipermail/smem/2009-April/000014.html
Apparently the Debian package does have python-tk as a requirement, as can be seen here - http://packages.debian.org/stable/python-matplotlib
Just ran into this problem in Jaunty when testing smem (mentioned on this weeks LWN front page), and also described in the smem list archive here by someone else: http:// selenic. com/pipermail/ smem/2009- April/000014. html
Apparently the Debian package does have python-tk as a requirement, as can be seen here - http:// packages. debian. org/stable/ python- matplotlib