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

It seems that you have insufficient RAM to build matplotlib from scratch. To overcome that, either turn on swap:

# create swap file of 512 MB
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=524288
# modify permissions
chown root:root /swapfile
chmod 0600 /swapfile
# setup swap area
mkswap /swapfile
# turn swap on
swapon /swapfile

Or, if you have raspbian installed on your SD card, you can install matplotlib from the repository:

apt-get install python-matplotlib