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

I was facing a similar issue in a Cloud Datalab docker image running on a gcloud VM. Executing the following fixed the issue for me:

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

Here is instructions on how to get to the docker image running on the gcloud VM containing the Datalab instance just in case.