Importing matplotlib gives an error

[drdwitte]

I basically just have a number of import statements, with matplotlib.pyplot causing problems. I have it in the scipy notebook but not in the all-spark notebook

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline

ImportError: libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Full error trace:
----> 1 import matplotlib.pyplot

/opt/conda/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py in ()
107
108 from matplotlib.backends import pylab_setup
--> 109 _backend_mod, new_figure_manager, draw_if_interactive, _show = pylab_setup()
110
111

/opt/conda/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/init.py in pylab_setup()
30 # imports. 0 means only perform absolute imports.
31 backend_mod = import(backend_name,
---> 32 globals(),locals(),[backend_name],0)
33
34 # Things we pull in from all backends

/opt/conda/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4agg.py in ()
15 from matplotlib.figure import Figure
16
---> 17 from .backend_qt5agg import NavigationToolbar2QTAgg
18 from .backend_qt5agg import FigureCanvasQTAggBase
19

/opt/conda/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt5agg.py in ()
16
17 from .backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg
---> 18 from .backend_qt5 import QtCore
19 from .backend_qt5 import QtGui
20 from .backend_qt5 import FigureManagerQT

/opt/conda/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt5.py in ()
29 figureoptions = None
30
---> 31 from .qt_compat import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets, _getSaveFileName, version
32 from matplotlib.backends.qt_editor.formsubplottool import UiSubplotTool
33

/opt/conda/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/qt_compat.py in ()
89 if QT_API in [QT_API_PYQT, QT_API_PYQTv2]: # PyQt4 API
90
---> 91 from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
92
93 try:

ImportError: libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[parente]

As a quick workaround, put the %matplotlib inline first. There was another issue open about this and I thought we had it fixed, but apparently not in all cases.

[parente]

Ref: #51, #58

[parente]

Merged. Will report tag when rebuilt and pushed to dockerhub.

[parente]

Tagged 092fe70190dc on Docker Hub.