Matplotlib install failure on Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion

Question

I tried to install matplotlib on my MacBook Air, but it always gives me this error message:

 Processing matplotlib-1.1.1_notests.tar.gz
 Running matplotlib-1         


        

Answer 1

Note the 'no pkg-config' notices. You should have pkg-config on your search path, and it presumably needs to be the homebrew version so that it knows where the homebrew versions of the libraries are.