Python/IPython ImportError: no module named site
TRY to unset your python path...
In Linux/Mac, you can use these commands:
unset PYTHONPATHunset PYTHONHOME
Change the location of the standard Python libraries. By default, the libraries are searched in prefix/lib/pythonversion and exec_prefix/lib/pythonversion, where prefix and exec_prefix are installation-dependent directories, both defaulting to /usr/local.
When PYTHONHOME is set to a single directory, its value replaces both prefix and exec_prefix. To specify different values for these, set PYTHONHOME to prefix:exec_prefix.
Try to clean up your PYTHONHOME:
user$ export PYTHONHOME=As for installing matplotlib, I would recommend the following:
sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib(details here)
you can unset PYTHONHOME to use the system default, or export PYTHONHOME=/usr to specify the prefix, to which Python will append '/lib/python2.7' (or whatever version it happens to be) to locate its libraries.
if you export PYTHONHOME=/usr/lib/python2.7, Python looks for libraries in the nonexistent folder /usr/lib/python2.7/lib/python2.7.
and if you export PYTHONHOME=, you are telling Python to look for lib in the current working directory:
jcomeau@aspire:~$ PYTHONHOME= strace -estat64 /usr/bin/pythonstat64("lib/python2.7/", 0xff870ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib/python2.7", 0xff870ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0stat64("lib/python2.7/", 0xff873efc) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib/python2.7/plat-i386-linux-gnu", 0xff870ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib/python2.7", 0xff870ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0stat64("lib/python2.7/plat-i386-linux-gnu", 0xff873efc) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib/python2.7/lib-tk", 0xff870ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib/python2.7", 0xff870ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0stat64("lib/python2.7/lib-tk", 0xff873efc) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib/python2.7/lib-old", 0xff870ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib/python2.7", 0xff870ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0stat64("lib/python2.7/lib-old", 0xff873efc) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib/python2.7/lib-dynload", 0xff870ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib/python2.7", 0xff870ee0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)stat64("lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0stat64("lib/python2.7/lib-dynload", 0xff873efc) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)ImportError: No module named site