Import error ft2font from matplotlib (python, macosx)
- by Tomas K
I was installing matplotlib to use basemap today when I had to install a lot of stuff to make it work. After installing matplotlib and be able to import it I installed basemap but I can't import basemap because of this error:
from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/basemap/init.py", line 36, in
from matplotlib.collections import LineCollection
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/collections.py", line 22, in
import matplotlib.backend_bases as backend_bases
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 38, in
import matplotlib.widgets as widgets
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/widgets.py", line 16, in
from lines import Line2D
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/lines.py", line 23, in
from matplotlib.font_manager import FontProperties
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 52, in
from matplotlib import ft2font
ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so, 2): Symbol not found: _FT_Attach_File
Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so
Expected in: dynamic lookup
So when I tried to import ft2font in python by:
from matplotlib import ft2font
I got this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so, 2): Symbol not found: _FT_Attach_File
Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.so
Expected in: dynamic lookup
Any idea what to do?
I'm using Mac OSX 10.6 and python 2.7.2 installed by homebrew.
