Re: [Matplotlib-users] Build error; Matplotlib 1.4.0 on Ubuntu 12.04, Python 3.2

[John L. <joh...@sb...>]

On 08/31/2014 09:48 PM, John Ladasky wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am trying to install Matplotlib 1.4.0 on an older laptop, running 
> Ubuntu 12.04.  I am committed to Python 3.  In the standard Ubuntu 
> repositories, python3-matplotlib (of any version) is unavailable until 
> Ubuntu 13.04.
[snip]

OK. Problem solved. I succeeded in building and installing Matplotlib.  
It looks like I don't have any backends installed, but I'll fix that next.

I had freetype12 installed, but NOT freetype-dev.  I figured this out by 
looking at the source code of setupext.py.  Ordinarily I get more 
descriptive error messages when a Matplotlib build fails.  Even if 
they're coming from the C++ compiler, I get the name of the file which 
triggered the error, and it is usually related to the name of the broken 
package.