On an Ubunutu 14.04 machine the combination of answers from above worked. I sudo apt-get install
the dvipng
,texlive-latex-extra
, and texlive-fonts-recommended
packages and that did the trick:
$ sudo apt-get install dvipng texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended
Edit: As of Matplotlib 3.2.1, you now also need the package cm-super
(see https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/16911)
$ sudo apt-get install dvipng texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended cm-super