can't build matplotlib (png package issue)

Question

try to build matplotlib on fedora-18, build fails with

...
 png: no  [pkg-config information for \'libpng\' could not
                        be found.]
...
         


        

Answer 1

In mint/kubuntu as of today, it's named: libpng16-devtools, so the command to install it would be:

sudo apt-get install libpng16-devtools