Install error: ftheader.h: No such file or directory

Question

When I am trying to build matplotlib-1.3.1, I am getting the below freetype header errors. Probably it is not finding the ftheader.h. Any idea on how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

For RHEL use below command :

yum install freetype-devel -y

For Ubuntu use below command:

apt-get install libfreetype-dev -y