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With the wheel module installed, we can now download and install Matplotlib from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/:

Make sure you download and install the Matplotlib version that matches the Python version you are using. For example, download and install Matplotlib-1.5.3-cp36-cp36m-win-amd64.whl if you have Python 3.6 installed on a 64-bit OS, such as Microsoft Windows 10.

The amd64 in the middle of the executable name means you are installing the 64-bit version. If you are using a 32-bit x86 system then installing amd64 will not work. Similar problems can occur if you have installed a 32-bit version of Python and ...

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