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I'm newly in charge of system administration tasks, with a Rocky Linux 8 (Rocky Linux 8.6) server that has a couple dozen users. I want all users to be able to use numpy and matplotlib in Python3 on this server.

I've recently learned (through the warning given when pip installing as root...) that I should NOT be using pip as the root user, so I've instead installed numpy using yum as root: yum install python3-numpy - this works fine.

However, when I try (as root): yum install python3-matplotlib, I get the following:

    Error: 
     Problem: conflicting requests
      - nothing provides libqhull.so.7()(64bit) needed by python3-matplotlib-3.0.3-4.el8.x86_64
    (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

How do I get libqhull installed on my system? Or - do I need to do something different for all users to have access to numpy and matplotlib in Python3?

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  • check this threads https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66243583/making-python-module-work-for-different-users-in-ubuntu-18-04 ............Thread 2 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/435495/giving-access-to-user-installed-python-distribution-to-another-linux-user ........Thread 3 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36898474/how-to-install-a-module-for-all-users-with-pip-on-linux – Bhargav - Retarded Skills Jul 11 '22 at 19:53

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I seemed to get this fixed, but goodness I'm not sure if this is the best or even a good method, but I seemed to have fixed my problem.

I have another Rocky Linux 8.6 server that had already had matplotlib installed. On this other server, yum list installed showed:

libqhull.x86_64 2015.2-5.el8 @powertools,

seeing that the repository powertools had it.

So, on my Rocky Linux 8.6 server mentioned in the original question, I did:

yum install --enablerepo "powertools" python3-matplotlib

And it matplotlib installed and is available for all users. Immediate problem solved!

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