Anaconda Runtime Error: Python is not installed as a framework?
Question:
I’ve installed Anaconda with the pkg installer:
Python 2.7.10 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, May 28 2015, 17:04:42)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Anaconda is brought to you by Continuum Analytics.
Please check out: http://continuum.io/thanks and https://binstar.org
but when I attempt to use anything from matplotlib, i.e.:
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
I get
RuntimeError: Python is not installed as a framework.
The Mac OS X backend will not be able to function correctly if Python is not installed
as a framework. See the Python documentation for more information on installing Python
as a framework on Mac OS X. Please either reinstall Python as a framework,
or try one of the other backends.
I’m really not sure what this means, or how to go about fixing it.
Answers:
If you experience this error, don’t forget to check your bash_profile.
You can do this in terminal by:
cd
then
nano .bash_profile
check the contents. Macports and Homebrew add their own headings for things they’ve done here. You can remove the declarations they make to $PATH. Just leave the one Anaconda has made. I had a If you would like, you can:
cp .bash_profile ./bash_profile_backup_yyyy_mm_dd
and have a backup of the file, with filename indexing to the date you changed it. That is, provided you actually put in the date in instead of just the formatting characters I’m suggesting.
source ~/.bash_profile
will refresh your system’s reference to the bash_profile and you should be good to go in importing and using matplotlib
if using inside a virtualenv, I recommend following the instructions here:
http://matplotlib.org/faq/virtualenv_faq.html
I was having the same problem. Installing an older version of matplotlib did the trick for me. Try this command in your terminal while in your virtual environment:
pip install matplotlib==1.4.3
If the problem is only matplotlib, is worth try to change the backend:
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('TkAgg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6])
plt.show()
If it works you can change the backend permanently from the matplotlibrc file.
I was having the same problem with anaconda 2 & matplotlib 1.5.3.
Running a simple conda install matplotlib to reinstall matplotlib did the trick for me.
Run the file using pythonw instead of python.
This happens because python is not installed as a framework.
Therefore use pythonw myScript.py instead of python myScript.py
I am sure this will fix it.
I had a similar error.
RuntimeError: Python is not installed as a framework. The Mac OS X backend will not be able to function correctly if Python is not installed as a framework. See the Python documentation for more information on installing Python as a framework on Mac OS X. Please either reinstall Python as a framework, or try one of the other backends. If you are using (Ana)Conda please install python.app and replace the use of 'python' with 'pythonw'. See 'Working with Matplotlib on OSX' in the Matplotlib FAQ for more information.
Posting since I just had this issue and this was a quick fix:
If you used pip to install:
-
Create ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc
-
Add “backend: TkAgg” (without the quotations) to the file.
A reinstall of matplotlib should fix the issue for you as it did for me with
conda install matplotlib
Quickfix: Run your file using pythonw, instead of python.
e.g pythonw testFile.py.
From the matplotlib documentation;
$ conda install python.app
You need a framwork build of Python for matplotlib, but
The default python provided in (Ana)conda is not a framework build. However, a framework build can easily be installed, both in the main environment and in conda envs: install python.app (conda install python.app) and use pythonw rather than python
NB I had to add the conda-forge channel as python.app isn’t included in the default miniconda channels
$ conda config --add channels conda-forge
I’ve installed Anaconda with the pkg installer:
Python 2.7.10 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, May 28 2015, 17:04:42)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5577)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Anaconda is brought to you by Continuum Analytics.
Please check out: http://continuum.io/thanks and https://binstar.org
but when I attempt to use anything from matplotlib, i.e.:
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
I get
RuntimeError: Python is not installed as a framework.
The Mac OS X backend will not be able to function correctly if Python is not installed
as a framework. See the Python documentation for more information on installing Python
as a framework on Mac OS X. Please either reinstall Python as a framework,
or try one of the other backends.
I’m really not sure what this means, or how to go about fixing it.
If you experience this error, don’t forget to check your bash_profile.
You can do this in terminal by:
cd
then
nano .bash_profile
check the contents. Macports and Homebrew add their own headings for things they’ve done here. You can remove the declarations they make to $PATH. Just leave the one Anaconda has made. I had a If you would like, you can:
cp .bash_profile ./bash_profile_backup_yyyy_mm_dd
and have a backup of the file, with filename indexing to the date you changed it. That is, provided you actually put in the date in instead of just the formatting characters I’m suggesting.
source ~/.bash_profile
will refresh your system’s reference to the bash_profile and you should be good to go in importing and using matplotlib
if using inside a virtualenv, I recommend following the instructions here:
http://matplotlib.org/faq/virtualenv_faq.html
I was having the same problem. Installing an older version of matplotlib did the trick for me. Try this command in your terminal while in your virtual environment:
pip install matplotlib==1.4.3
If the problem is only matplotlib, is worth try to change the backend:
import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('TkAgg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6])
plt.show()
If it works you can change the backend permanently from the matplotlibrc file.
I was having the same problem with anaconda 2 & matplotlib 1.5.3.
Running a simple conda install matplotlib to reinstall matplotlib did the trick for me.
Run the file using pythonw instead of python.
This happens because python is not installed as a framework.
Therefore use pythonw myScript.py instead of python myScript.py
I am sure this will fix it.
I had a similar error.
RuntimeError: Python is not installed as a framework. The Mac OS X backend will not be able to function correctly if Python is not installed as a framework. See the Python documentation for more information on installing Python as a framework on Mac OS X. Please either reinstall Python as a framework, or try one of the other backends. If you are using (Ana)Conda please install python.app and replace the use of 'python' with 'pythonw'. See 'Working with Matplotlib on OSX' in the Matplotlib FAQ for more information.
Posting since I just had this issue and this was a quick fix:
If you used pip to install:
-
Create
~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc -
Add “
backend: TkAgg” (without the quotations) to the file.
A reinstall of matplotlib should fix the issue for you as it did for me with
conda install matplotlib
Quickfix: Run your file using pythonw, instead of python.
e.g pythonw testFile.py.
From the matplotlib documentation;
$ conda install python.app
You need a framwork build of Python for matplotlib, but
The default python provided in (Ana)conda is not a framework build. However, a framework build can easily be installed, both in the main environment and in conda envs: install python.app (conda install python.app) and use pythonw rather than python
NB I had to add the conda-forge channel as python.app isn’t included in the default miniconda channels
$ conda config --add channels conda-forge