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I'm new to python (started 2 days ago) and I have gotten to the point where I want to use matplotlib for my program. I am using python 3.3 and after I have followed the instructions of installing matplotlib I've gone through the following steps:

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install matplotlib

That returned this import error:

ImportError: No module named 'matplotlib'

So after some research I tried this:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get build-dep python-matplot

I'm still getting the same import error. I have found this page here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/427708/matplotlib-error-no-module-named-matplotlib-even-though-it-is-installed

This has given me the impression that I have installed the incorrect version of matplotlib and that I need v1.2 or higher. Can someone explain to me what I need to do to be able to use matplotlib and not get this error with Python 3.3?

I'm currently using Ubuntu 12.04.

Thank you.

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On my Mint 17 I just did, with Python 3.4 (would recommend that as you just start with Python, unless you need some library which does not yet support 3.4):

sudo pip3 install matplotlib

Then test the install:

python3

import matplotlib
matplotlib.__version__

Should give you '1.4.0'

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2.1.0 is what I got
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I am using python3 installed through anaconda3 on Ubuntu 16.04. 

sudo <path to anaconda>/anaconda3/bin/conda install matplotlib

Path to anaconda installation directory can be found using:

conda info --envs
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