error with installing a package(matplotlib)

thodoris doultsinos thodorisdoultsinos at gmail.com
Wed Oct 30 20:42:25 EDT 2019


Hello,
I have been encountering problems with installing packages on python. I am
using windows 10, pycharm and pip install order in command prompt to
install packages.At first I had an error with installing numpy (something
with visual c++ so i downloaded them and it worked).Now i want to download
matplotlib and i have this error:

 C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.23.28105\bin\HostX86\x86\cl.exe /c
/nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -DFREETYPE_BUILD_TYPE=system
-DPY_ARRAY_UNIQUE_SYMBOL=MPL_matplotlib_ft2font_ARRAY_API
-DNPY_NO_DEPRECATED_API=NPY_1_7_API_VERSION -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS=1
-Iextern/agg24-svn/include
-Ic:\users\tdoults\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\include
-Ic:\users\tdoults\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\include
-Ic:\users\tdoults\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\include
"-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.23.28105\ATLMFC\include"
"-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.23.28105\include" "-IC:\Program
Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.18362.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files
(x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.18362.0\shared" "-IC:\Program Files
(x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.18362.0\um" "-IC:\Program Files
(x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.18362.0\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files
(x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.18362.0\cppwinrt"
/Tcsrc/checkdep_freetype2.c
/Fobuild\temp.win32-3.8\Release\src/checkdep_freetype2.obj
    checkdep_freetype2.c
    src/checkdep_freetype2.c(1): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include
file: 'ft2build.h': No such file or directory
    error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual
Studio\\2019\\Community\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.23.28105\\bin\\HostX86\\x86\\cl.exe'
failed with exit status 2
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
'c:\users\tdoults\appdata\local\programs\python\python38-32\python.exe' -u
-c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] =
'"'"'C:\\Users\\tdoults\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-dl4grek0\\matplotlib\\setup.py'"'"';
__file__='"'"'C:\\Users\\tdoults\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-dl4grek0\\matplotlib\\setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize,
'"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"',
'"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))'
install --record
'C:\Users\tdoults\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-8431q_7r\install-record.txt'
--single-version-externally-managed --compile Check the logs for full
command output.

If there is a solution it would be very helpful for me.Thank you
nevertheless!
Theodor Doultsinos


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