Memory error while using pip install Matplotlib

Question

I am using Python 2.7, If i try to install Matplotlib I am getting this error if i use \"pip install matplotlib\"

 Exception:
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Answer 1

This error is coming up because, it seems, pip's caching mechanism is trying to read the entire file into memory before caching it… which poses a problem in a limited-memory environment, as matplotlib is ~50mb.

A simpler solution, until pip is patched to use a constant-space caching algorithm, is to run pip with --no-cache-dir to avoid the cache:

$ pip --no-cache-dir install matplotlib