Many thanks Ben and Thomas, the following worked! I think the problem was
when I cloned the repo and download the source the first time I was not
getting the correct version
Andy
wget https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/archive/master.tar.gz
tar -zxvf master.tar.gz
cd matplotlib-master/
y
Also, make sure that you don't have conflicting installs of packages all
over the place. Be sure to remove the build/ and dist/ directories if you
have a failed build before trying again.
Also, it shouldn't be much of an issue that there are multiple pythons in
the same system, as python tends to
I think this is a bug that had been fixed on both master and 1.4.x.
If I recall correctly this is an issue with free type (#3471 fixes it). The
other work around is to install freetype-dev.
Tom
(From phone so chasing siren details is hard)
On Oct 12, 2014 3:16 PM, "Andy Davidson"
wrote:
> I am
I am having a heck of time getting matplotlib installed on my amazon ec2
cluster. (I am new to python)
I wonder if the problem is /usr/python points to an old version of python. I
need to use /usr/bin/python2.7
I have tried using yum, yum-builddep, pip2.7, downloading the the source ,
and eve
