Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problems installing matplotlib - compiling error

[Paul H. <pmh...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Orgun <am...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi guy,
>
> as I'm new to matplotlib I tried to install it following the instructions
> on
> http://matplotlib.org/faq/installing_faq.html#source-install-from-git
> <http://matplotlib.org/faq/installing_faq.html#source-install-from-git>  .
> After downloading and changing the directory properly I get the following
> error:
>
>
> building 'matplotlib.ft2font' extension
> gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g
> -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat
> -Werror=format-security
> -fPIC -DPY_ARRAY_UNIQUE_SYMBOL=MPL_ARRAY_API -DPYCXX_ISO_CPP_LIB=1
> -DPYCXX_PYTHON_2TO3=1 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include
> -I/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/numpy/core/include
> -I/usr/include/freetype2
> -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include -I. -I/usr/include/python3.2mu -c
> src/ft2font.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.2/src/ft2font.o
> In file included from ./CXX/Extensions.hxx:37:0,
>                  from src/ft2font.h:6,
>                  from src/ft2font.cpp:3:
> ./CXX/WrapPython.h:58:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
> compilation terminated.
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1


This error leads me to think that you need the Python3 development headers.
$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev  # from memory, so yeah

Let us know if that works.
-p



> I'm using Linux Mint Nadia 14.2 Kernel 3.5.0.17, Python 3.2.3 (Oct 19 2012)
> and gcc 4.7.2. Numpy, Simpy & Scipy are up to date.
>
> What did I do wrong?
> I have to use python3 because every other task was written specifficly with
> python3.
>
> cheers,
> Christian
>