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seems like a correct replacement.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/282839/using-pip-vs-macports-for-installing-python-packages
https://ports.macports.org/port/py-matplotlib/details/
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Should we just drop this altogether? We don't give instructions for apt or other package managers, do we? I think we should doc pip and conda and if someone wants to install with macports they can ask macports how to do it.
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We give basic installation commands (like
sudo apt install python-matplotlib) for some package managers, but little package-manager specific setup instructions.https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/doc/users/installing/index.rst#linux-package-manager
This does seem to be a common problem for OSX users, so maybe it might be worth leaving in the installation guide and adding @oscargus suggestion.
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I somewhat disagree, or at the least we need to rephrase the docs here. If I was a naive user who had not really heard of conda I'd skip the conda section (what's that?) and go to the MacOS section. Then I would be using crazy macports or brew installs, or worse trying to use the system python, when really by far the easiest solution on a Mac (or most other platforms) is to use conda. All this stuff should be hidden behind links that say "manual OS-specific installs, not recommended".