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I am running a notebook that worked last time I logged into DataLab, but now am getting the following error when trying to plot using matplotlib.pyplot:

"RuntimeError: Failed to process string with tex because dvipng could not be found"

Any idea what has recently changed that would have made matplotlib unable to locate latex/dvipng?
by jcarlin (160 points) | 1.9k views
Here are the contents of the cell I am trying to execute:

params = {
   'axes.labelsize': 20,
   'font.size': 20,
   'legend.fontsize': 14,
#   'xtick.labelsize': 16,
   'xtick.major.width': 3,
   'xtick.minor.width': 2,
   'xtick.major.size': 8,
   'xtick.minor.size': 5,
   'xtick.direction': 'in',
   'xtick.top': True,
   'lines.linewidth':3,
   'axes.linewidth':3,
   'axes.labelweight':3,
   'axes.titleweight':3,
   'ytick.major.width':3,
   'ytick.minor.width':2,
   'ytick.major.size': 8,
   'ytick.minor.size': 5,
   'ytick.direction': 'in',
   'ytick.right': True,
#   'ytick.labelsize': 20,
   'text.usetex': True,
   'text.latex.preamble': r'\boldmath',
   'figure.figsize': [7,9]
   }

plt.rcParams.update(params)

#plt.plot(g0-i0,i0,'k.',alpha=0.01)
plt.plot(g0[star & cen]-i0[star & cen],i0[star & cen],'c.',alpha=0.2)
plt.ylim(25.8,16.8)
plt.xlim(-1,4)
plt.xlabel(r'$(g-i)_0$')
plt.ylabel(r'$i_0$')
plt.minorticks_on()

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Actually, I logged out of DataLab and logged back in, and this problem went away. I'm guessing that my login was "stale," and my path wasn't set up correctly...
by jcarlin (160 points)
I can't explain why it previously might have worked, however 'dvipng' was not installed on the machine.  It was installed but I became distracted before replying so it's possible that you picked up the new binary afterwards.

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