import matplotlib.pyplot as plt, ImportError: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Question

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt is erroring with python2.7, anaconda3.

The error is ImportError: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No su

Answer 1

Answer by Dhanisha works fine, as i am adding explanation on top off it

remove

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

add

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use("Agg")
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

The reason behind such behavior is if you are running it on server switch do not have gui support or non interactive mode. If you run same code on jupyter notebook, it would work fine.

see below links

https://matplotlib.org/faq/howto_faq.html

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/9954

Answer 2

import matplotlib 
matplotlib.use("Agg") 
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

this worked for me

Answer 3

Below commands worked for me:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-glx