I tried to install matplotlib by using pip and it failed with the following output:
2021-08-18T11:52:26,171 Collecting matplotlib
2021-08-18T11:52:26,173 Created temporary directory: /tmp/pip-unpack-wuth2u0e
2021-08-18T11:52:26,565 Using cached matplotlib-3.4.3.tar.gz (37.9 MB)
2021-08-18T11:52:38,659 Added matplotlib from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/21/37/ 197e68df384ff694f78d687a49ad39f96c67b8d75718bc61503e1676b617/matplotlib-3.4.3.tar. gz#sha256=fc4f526dfdb31c9bd6b8ca06bf9fab663ca12f3ec9cdf4496fb44bc680140318 to build tracker '/tmp/pip- req-tracker-u30x8pht'
2021-08-18T11:52:38,660 Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip-install-afiyiers/ matplotlib_8e717e38862f4976a3d6cb1832ba3261/setup.py) egg_info for package matplotlib
2021-08-18T11:52:38,661 Created temporary directory: /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-kbtiezxq
2021-08-18T11:52:38,662 Running command python setup.py egg_info
2021-08-18T11:52:38,831 Traceback (most recent call last):
2021-08-18T11:52:38,832 File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
2021-08-18T11:52:38,832 File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
2021-08-18T11:52:38,833 ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_distutils_hack'
More details about it:
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=968410
Once I applied the patch from the bug tracker, I got further to install
it.
Signed-off-by: Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schlehofer@gmail.com>