Matplotlibrc needs to be updated?

Question

So I wiped Python 3.6 some weeks ago and seem to have incorrectly reinstalled matplotlib etc because I've been getting a bunch of errors for different things.

I'm trying to run a script that displays a number of images side by side using subplot. Tried it from the command line, worked fine. But when I write it all up in a script and try to run it (I have about 24 images) I get the following error:

You probably need to get an updated matplotlibrc file from http://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/matplotlibrc.template or from the matplotlib source distribution Traceback (most recent call last): File "./merge_pics.py", line 8, in fig=plt.figure() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 527, in figure **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py", line 84, in new_figure_manager return new_figure_manager_given_figure(num, figure) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py", line 101, in new_figure_manager_given_figure icon_img = Tk.PhotoImage(file=icon_fname) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3370, in init Image.init(self, 'photo', name, cnf, master, **kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3324, in init self.tk.call(('image', 'create', imgtype, name,) + options) _tkinter.TclError: couldn't open "/usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/matplotlib.gif": no such file or directory

When I click on the link I can't tell where I'm supposed to get the updated matplotlibrc file.

I have tried wget http://github.... but still get the same error

Matplotlib is definitely installed because trying to plot simple things is working so I can't figure out what's going wrong

Answer 1

I have tried and fixed this error successfully. Firstly, you should uninstall matplotlib by

pip uninstall matplotlib

Then, you install it again by

pip install matplotlib

Feel free to ask more.