aws ec2 error installing matplotlib

Question

I am trying to run a script on an ec2 instance which requires matplotlib and apparently it is not installed by default. So I am trying to do it

pip install -U matplotlib

as you can see in the image, I get this error:

and here is the text version:

Collecting matplotlib   Downloading matplotlib-2.0.0.tar.gz (53.2MB)
    99% |████████████████████████████████| 53.2MB 24.0MB/s eta 0:00:01  Exception:   Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 246, in main
      status = self.run(options, args)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 342, in run
      requirement_set.prepare_files(finder)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 345, in prepare_files
      functools.partial(self._prepare_file, finder))
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 290, in _walk_req_to_install
      more_reqs = handler(req_to_install)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 487, in _prepare_file
      download_dir, do_download, session=self.session,
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 827, in unpack_url
      session,
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 673, in unpack_http_url
      from_path, content_type = _download_http_url(link, session, temp_dir)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 888, in _download_http_url
      _download_url(resp, link, content_file)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 621, in _download_url
      for chunk in progress_indicator(resp_read(4096), 4096):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/utils/ui.py", line 133, in iter
      for x in it:
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 586, in resp_read
      decode_content=False):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/response.py", line 273, in stream
      data = self.read(amt=amt, decode_content=decode_content)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/packages/urllib3/response.py", line 203, in read
      data = self._fp.read(amt)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/filewrapper.py", line 54, in read
      self.__callback(self.__buf.getvalue())
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/controller.py", line 224, in cache_response
      self.serializer.dumps(request, response, body=body),
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/serialize.py", line 81, in dumps
      ).encode("utf8"),   MemoryError

Possible duplicate of [Memory error while using pip install Matplotlib](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29466663/memory-error-while-using-pip-install-matplotlib) — Miles, Mar 25 '17 at 09:08

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 15 '17 at 07:24

If you are on a lower tier of the EC2 instance, the memory allocated to the instance might not be sufficient to used to compile the mathplot.

If you are on a lower tier ec2 instance, you may consider to switch on swap. The following information was summarized from digitalocean website. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04

We can see if the system has any configured swap by typing:

sudo swapon -s

Check current swap usage:

free -m

If it shows Swap: 0 0 0 that means there is no Swap total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3953 154 3799 0 8 83 -/+ buffers/cache: 62 3890 Swap: 0 0 0

Check space size

df -h

Make sure you have sufficient space and create:

sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile

Verify space information:

ls -lh /swapfile

Return result of above command:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root **2.0G** Apr 28 17:19 /swapfile

Enabling the Swap File

sudo chmod 600 /swapfile

Verify that the file has the correct permissions by typing:

ls -lh /swapfile

Setup swap space:

sudo mkswap /swapfile

Use the swap space:

sudo swapon /swapfile

Check the procedure is correct:

sudo swapon -s

Check free space:

free -m

The Swap should have indicated more than 0 in total field.

Make the Swap File Permanent:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

At the end of the file key in :

/swapfile   none    swap    sw    0   0

After complete the above steps, you may consider to use yum install to install python-matplotlib:

sudo yum install python-matplotlib

aws ec2 error installing matplotlib

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