The following were installed:
freetype 2.5.0.1
libpng 1.6.6
pyparsing 2.0.1
numpy 1.7.1
matplotlib 1.3.0
There may have been some other things installed too that I forgot to list. It seemed like every dependency had multiple uninstalled dependencies of its own.
root@stevie [/home/krydos/src/matplotlib-1.3.0]# /usr/local/bin/python2.7
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, May 15 2011, 21:32:40)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import matplotlib
>>> print matplotlib.__version__
1.3.0
It appears to be working. Apologies for the delay in getting all this set up. I've been quite busy, and as you might imagine it wasn't a particularly simple thing to install.