Re: [Matplotlib-users] error: Setup script exited with error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:17 PM, M.Rule <mru...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello, I'm having trouble installing Matplotlib. Both easy_install and the
> latest svn checkout give similar errors : http://pastebin.com/5g0RsdRx
>
> any ideas ?
>
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If you are on Ubuntu, you can do this easily with the following command:

sudo apt-get build-dep python-matplotlib

Then you can try building matplotlib.

Ben Root