How to fix “could not find or load the Qt platform plugin windows” while using Matplotlib in PyCharm

I had the same problem with Anaconda3 4.2.0 and 4.3.0.1 (64-bit). When I tried to run a simple program that uses matplotlib, I got this error message: This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “windows” Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Reinstalling didn’t fix it. … Read more

Global npm install location on windows?

According to: https://docs.npmjs.com/files/folders Local install (default): puts stuff in ./node_modules of the current package root. Global install (with -g): puts stuff in /usr/local or wherever node is installed. Install it locally if you’re going to require() it. Install it globally if you’re going to run it on the command line. -> If you need both, … Read more

“UserWarning: Matplotlib is currently using agg, which is a non-GUI backend, so cannot show the figure.” when plotting figure with pyplot on Pycharm

Solution 1: is to install the GUI backend tk I found a solution to my problem (thanks to the help of ImportanceOfBeingErnest). All I had to do was to install tkinter through the Linux bash terminal using the following command: sudo apt-get install python3-tk instead of installing it with pip or directly in the virtual … Read more