# UnicodePlots examples; Plotly licensing

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unicodeplots-examples-plotly-licensing/1280
**Category:** Visualization
**Created:** [January 4, 2017, 10:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unicodeplots-examples-plotly-licensing/1280 "2017-01-04T10:33:07Z")
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### Author: ![Palli](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/palli/32/3380_2.png) [@Palli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Palli)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unicodeplots-examples-plotly-licensing/1280/8 "2017-01-04T12:17:16Z")

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> [@How to choose a plotting package?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-choose-a-plotting-package/1134/3):
>
> > vincent:  
> > have a look on the page: [http://julialang.org/downloads/plotting.html](http://julialang.org/downloads/plotting.html)
> 
> That page should have a section on Plots.jl. I’ll submit a PR.

I too a look at the page (assume PR is in); and Vincent’s code:

> [@How to choose a plotting package?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-choose-a-plotting-package/1134/4):
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> using Plotsplotlyjs(size = (300,300), legend = false)
> 
> plot(rand(10,5)) plot(x = 1:10, y = rand(10))

Neither works; I’m on Ubuntu 16.04, of course with Python [2.7.12] installed. Strange that PyPlot didn’t work to begin with, and (to me), I guess I was asking for Python install here, but not two versions… older python-2.7.11-0 and newer python-2.7.13 (and [more than one?] [mini]conda… and PyPlot still failes after…:

```julia
julia> withenv("PYTHON" => "") do
           Pkg.build("PyPlot")
       end
INFO: Building Conda
INFO: Building PyCall
INFO: No system-wide Python was found; got the following error:
could not spawn `'' -c "import distutils.sysconfig; print(distutils.sysconfig.get_config_var('VERSION'))"`: no such file or directory (ENOENT)

[..]
INFO: Installing miniconda ...
[..]
installing: _cache-0.0-py27_x0 ...
installing: python-2.7.11-0 ...

[..]
The following packages will be downloaded:

    python-2.7.13 | 0 11.5 MB
[..]
    conda-4.2.13 | py27_0 391 KB

[..]
python-2.7.13

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[PS. Is it only me, is Discourse slow? Annoyingly, order of letters that I type in, keep appearing in the incorrect order… I guess it’s a general [here: Brave beta w/“load average: 0,11”] browser issue (Chrome derivative; if I recall happened before with it and/or Firefox; what’s the best browser…?)… Happens on other websites, such as Quora (but not in the REPL).]

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