MkDocs Error

[davesgonechina]

Pip install successful but MkDocs spits out the following on the example from the readme:

Error : [Errno 2] No such file or directory : [u'dot', u'-Tsvg']

[sprin]

Thanks for reporting!

The graphviz system package must be installed. sudo apt-get install graphviz.

I will update README.

[kyleomalley]

i need some way to generate these images natively in python (without any OS-specific binaries in the way).

[sprin]

@kyleomalley: There are various Python bindings to Graphviz you can check out:

pygraphviz graphviz-python pydot

There's no pure Python alternative to Graphviz that I am aware of. Graphviz is written in C, and either the binaries or the shared library must be installed on the system to use it.

Here's how pydot locates the Graphviz executables in a platform-independent way: https://github.com/erocarrera/pydot/blob/master/pydot.py#L405

[davesgonechina]

Installing graphviz took care of the error, but now mkdocs is simply ignoring the Dot code.

[sprin]

Is the extension enabled in mkdocs.yml?

Can you try a doc containing only the example graph code shown in the README? Also, do you see any errors when invoking dot on a graph code file from the command line?

[davesgonechina]

There were no errors, the extension was enabled in mkdocs.yml, but rebooting the server did the trick. Thanks!

[sprin]

I can't vouch for rebooting as a solution, but it's possible that the Graphviz binaries were not on the PATH after installation until you opened a new shell.

@kyleomalley: If you need any more help with cross-platform support, open a new ticket and we can investigate further.

Closing.