Briefly put, Matplotlib 1.0.1 is not compatible with libpng 1.5 due to a change in the API. Unfortunately, as previously mentioned, all is not so easy in the world of Mac OS X 10.7, and the difficulty lies with libpng 1.5, installed with Mac OS X 10.7’s version of X11. Additionally, the current Matplotlib release version (1.0.1 as of this post) does not compile out-of-the-box against libpng 1.5, which is included in the X11 distribution shipped with Mac OS X 10.7.įor previous versions of Mac OS X (10.6, 10.5), the usual way to install matplotlib was to install python, pkg-config, and gfortran with Homebrew, then install numpy and matplotlib through pip, ala: However, getting matplotlib installed on Mac OS X 10.7 can be a bit tricky, especially if you are using Homebrew as your “package manager.” First off, Homebrew does not have packages for matplotlib, as well as some of its dependencies. ![]() For those of you that do not know, Matplotlib is an excellent Python plotting library that allows you to create professional-quality plots for inclusion on web pages, Latex documents, Beamer presentations, Keynote presentations, and any other software that can import SVG, EPS, PNG, or virtually any graphic format.
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