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

I also had a similar issue, and fixed it in a reasonably straightforward way using homebrew.

You don't have to link the freetype libraries for this reason. The main problem is, after you install freetype using homebrew, you are told to add

-I/usr/local/opt/freetype/include 

to your CPPFLAGS. However, this alone is not sufficient, and you also have to add the the freetype2 subfolder as well.

So in order to install matplotlib, do this:

brew install freetype
brew install libpng
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/freetype/lib -L/usr/local/opt/libpng/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/freetype/include -I/usr/local/opt/libpng/include -I/usr/local/opt/freetype/include/freetype2" pip install matplotlib