Thanks for the help,
I did a mess using the pgplot package from the distro instead using that compiled with the Ifeffit distribution. I removed that of the distro, cleaned up the installation and started again with the pgplot_install script. Everything is fine now. It took just a few minutes. The fact athena was working (I got a graphic window), while the python wrapper not, that puzzled me.
Thanks again,
Emiliano.

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Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:43:56 -0500
From: "Matt Newville" <newville@cars.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] RE : Ifeffit Digest, Vol 53, Issue 1
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Hi Emilano,

I use the python wrapper for Ifeffit on linux all the time, and also
use python "for several things on the beamline".  And just for the
record, I do not use debian packages.