Matplotlib cannot find basic fonts

Question

I am using matplotlib version 2.0.0 on Python 3 in a miniconda virtual environment. I am working on a unix scientific computing cluster where I don\'t have root privileges.

Answer 1

To get it to work, I had to combine the two current top answers. Here's what worked for me:

$ sudo apt install msttcorefonts -qq
$ rm ~/.cache/matplotlib -rf