Hi Matplotlib Users,
First of all, I hope this is the right place to ask my questions, otherwise, apologies for the spam.
I am trying to install python on my mac (10.6.7) and I have some issues when trying to import pylab.
I installed python 2.7.1 from the EDP package (32-bit), I have numpy 1.5.0 and matplotlib 1.0.0.
I can import both numpy and matplotlib successfully (backend is MacOSX, I also tried TkAgg).
But no matter how I try to import pylab ("import pylab", "from pylab import *", "ipython -pylab", "from matplotlib import pylab") I always have the following message:
>>> import pylab
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pylab.py", line 1, in <module>
from matplotlib.pylab import *
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py", line 216, in <module>
from matplotlib import mpl # pulls in most modules
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl.py", line 2, in <module>
from matplotlib import axis
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", line 10, in <module>
import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 52, in <module>
from matplotlib import ft2font
ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so, 2): Library not loaded: @rpath/libfreetype.6.dylib
Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so
Reason: image not found
Just to be sure, a "which python" returns:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/bin/python
I also checked that I do have the "ft2font.so" file inside /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/.
To me it seems that the library "libfreetype.6.dylib" cannot be found, but I must confess I have no idea what this @rpath is. Of course, I already tried to google this but couldn't find a proper solution. A "locate libfreetype.6.dylib" returns the following:
/Applications/TeX/TeXworks.app/Contents/Frameworks/libfreetype.6.dylib
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
/usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
Using the otool -L to see the different links of the last two files here's what I have:
>otool -L /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/7.0/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib:
@rpath/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 13.0.0, current version 13.2.0)
/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.3)
/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 111.0.0)
>otool -L /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib
/usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib:
/usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 13.0.0, current version 13.0.0)
/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.3)
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 44.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 38.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 125.2.1)
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation (compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 550.34.0)
And then, I'm completely lost and I have no idea how to proceed. Anyone has an idea how to solve this ?
Thanks a lot,
Johan