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In Ubuntu 16.04 I am able to install almost every python package and library using pip except for matplotlib.

I use this command to install matplotlib pip install matplotlib This gives the error: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-z5w80J/matplotlib/

But I don't obsereve this error while installing any other python package and I have no clue of why this error comes. Please help as I need to use matplotlib library.

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As described in this post on StackOverflow this is a "known bug". On Github, they explain that when freetype-config is missing the setup.py crashes. The output of the error message looks a bit different in this one but it seems like it can be handled just as explained in the link that I posted. By typing:

sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev libxft-dev

followed by:

sudo pip install matplotlib
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