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
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
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
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
