add cairo package in the anaconda python distribution

Question

I am new to using the anaconda distribution for python, and I have trouble installing the cairo package. Note that I am using Mac OsX.

I ran the following command

Answer 1

Have you installed a package with Python bindings, such as PyCairo och cairocffi? If you haven't you won't be able to interact with Cairo from Python.

I've just spent way too much time trying to get this to work myself with Anaconda on my Mac. I couldn't get PyCairo to work at all, but I managed to get cairocffi installed and working through pip after a bit of fiddling.

If import cairocffi doesn't work and gives you an error message that ends with

OSError: cannot load library libcairo.so.2: dlopen(libcairo.so.2, 2): image not found

try export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH:/Users/your_username/anaconda/lib/ or whatever your Anaconda path is at the command line.

Also see https://github.com/SimonSapin/cairocffi/issues/29