[yt-users] ubuntu 10.04 installation issue

Matthew Turk matthewturk at gmail.com
Tue Aug 17 09:01:33 PDT 2010


Hi Robert,

> I just put Ubuntu 10.04 64bit on my desktop and wanted to get yt going and
> ran into an issue with the linux/unix install script.  It gets up to
> matplotlib and errors out:

The end of the install log seems to indicate it can't find the
freetype2 headers.  Do this:

apt-cache search freetype2 | grep dev

and install the -dev packages.  I can't recall the name -- it might be
something like libfreetype2-dev or a variant on that.

-Matt



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