About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. New video version for MacOS Mojave Python with NumPy SciPy Matplotlib on macOS Sierra using the Miniconda. If you use your package manager (MacPorts, brew,) to later install additional programs that depend on Matplotlib, the package manager will install it regardless. If you install a Python package via pip, and pip installs it in your package manager tree (MacPorts, brew,), the package manager might complain. For example, MacPorts does not. In this tutorial, we will learn about installing matplotlib on different operating systems like windows and mac os, we will also have a brief look at how to work with matplotlib in jupyter notebook. In order to start working with matplotlib, we need to make sure it’s installed first on our system.
If it fails to install matplotlib on mac because the compiler cannot locate some freetype header files, and if you don’t have freetype, then first install it using brew for instance:
Odds are the compiler still complains when you try the installation second time.
The reason is that many libraries are installed under /usr/X11 on mac, and they are not correctly located at compile time due to the non-canonical location. If you’re using pkg-config, an easy way to use them is to include the package database there in /usr/X11 when locating headers and libraries using pkg-config. Export the following variable before compiling matplotlib:
Brew Install Matplotlib
Pip Install Matplotlib Windows
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