2015

created and set up a clean 64-bit Lubuntu 14.04 VM
installed NodePy from the git repo and all its dependencies
tested the scripts in nodepy/examples, and had some issues with a couple of them (I debugged these a bit but with no luck):

-- advectionSD.py: a blank figure window comes up as with a TypeError: Couldn't find conversion for foreign struct 'cairo.Context' message in the terminal.

-- advectionUPWIND.py: a blank figure window comes up as with a unrecognized sdname.\ TypeError: Couldn't find conversion for foreign struct 'cairo.Context' message in the terminal.

-- make_oc_script_matlab.py: it complains about no module named threestep_runge_kutta_method. It initially complained about no module named rooted_tree, but editing line 4 to import nodepy.rooted_trees as tt did the trick. Doing the same to threestep_runge_kutta_method didn’t work.

-- plot_order_stars.py: error message TypeError: plot_order_star() got an unexpected keyword argument 'subplot' in line 11.

still reading through chapter 6 of LeVeque