# Unable to use PyPlot either in Jupyter notebook or in terminal

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-use-pyplot-either-in-jupyter-notebook-or-in-terminal/60126>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** jupyter, pyplot, ijulia\
**Created:** [April 27, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-use-pyplot-either-in-jupyter-notebook-or-in-terminal/60126 "2021-04-27T20:33:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 5:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-use-pyplot-either-in-jupyter-notebook-or-in-terminal/60126/3 "2021-04-28T05:12:25Z")

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There are known issues with MKL and Pyplot, see here for some possible solutions

> [@Intel MKL FATAL ERROR with PyPlot](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/intel-mkl-fatal-error-with-pyplot/36737/9):
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> Modifying .zshrc with the following works : addToPATH () { export LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH="$1:$LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH" } addToPATH ~/.julia/conda/3/lib

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