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Pip install matplotlib does not work: "cannot create freetype package;" python setup.py egg_info 'failed with error code 1'

I want to use matplotlib.pyplot. I can not because

altoidnerd@LEPTON :~/ $ pip install matplotlib

does not work on ubuntu 14, giving an egg_info error, and the warning "cannot create batch freetype"

 * The following required packages can not be built: * freetype ---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-8UvQcW/matplotlib

But

 altoidnerd@LEPTON :~/$ dpkg -L libfreetype6 /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6.11.1 /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6 /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/FTL.TXT.gz /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/ft2faq.html /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/TODO /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/copyright /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/pcf /usr/share/doc/libfreetype6/pcf/README /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6

my debug.log is here: http://pastebin.com/rvDuYDiy

The discussion on this issue on github was closed last year, but I could not use it to solve the problem (I left a note):

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/3029

I started reddit thread .

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3 answers

This did the trick for me:

 sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev pkg-config
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The following command mentioned in github thread you mentioned above works for me:

sudo ln -s /usr/include/freetype2/ft2build.h /usr/include/

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I had a similar problem solved with:

 easy_install -U pip pip install matplotlib
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/983464/

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