how to install Matplotlib on Cygwin?

Question

I\'m trying to install Matplotlib 1.0.1 version on latest Cygwin. In the processing, there is a weird fork error cannot be solved. I googled similar questions and found that

Answer 1

These steps taken from www.scivision.co worked for me:

1. Run Cygwin setup: (For some reason the original command posted in the source link did not work for me)

2. install packages: (most of these you may already have)

   • pkg-config
   • ghostscript
   • libfreetype-devel
   • libpng-devel
   • libgtk2.0-devel
   • gcc-g++
   • git
   • openbox
   • python3-numpy
   • python3-pyqt5
   • python3-devel
3. Then from Cygwin Terminal:

easy_install-3.6 pip pip install --upgrade six pip install matplotlib

4. Then tested from python console:

import matplotlib matplotlib.__version__