Matplotlib no longer respects its own config file

Kaggle · Nov 18, 2015 · 2b39197 · 2b39197
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diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
@@ -98,10 +98,9 @@ RUN apt-get -y install libgeos-dev && \
  cd cartopy && python setup.py install && \
  pip install ibis-framework
 
- # Matplotlib, with backend set to Agg
-RUN cd /usr/local/src && git clone https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git && \
- cd matplotlib && mv setup.cfg.template setup.cfg && echo "backend = Agg" >> setup.cfg && \
- python setup.py build && python setup.py install
+ # set backend for matplotlib to Agg
+RUN matplotlibrc_path=$(python -c "import site, os, fileinput; packages_dir = site.getsitepackages()[0]; print(os.path.join(packages_dir, 'matplotlib', 'mpl-data', 'matplotlibrc'))") && \
+ sed -i 's/^backend : Qt4Agg/backend : Agg/' $matplotlibrc_path
 
  # MXNet
  # The g++4.8 dependency is not currently available via the default apt-get