when entering %pylab into jupyter notebook

gistfile1.txt

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ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-4ab7ec3413a5> in <module>()
----> 1 get_ipython().magic('pylab')

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py in magic(self, arg_s)
   2334         magic_name, _, magic_arg_s = arg_s.partition(' ')
   2335         magic_name = magic_name.lstrip(prefilter.ESC_MAGIC)
-> 2336         return self.run_line_magic(magic_name, magic_arg_s)
   2337 
   2338     #-------------------------------------------------------------------------

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py in run_line_magic(self, magic_name, line)
   2255                 kwargs['local_ns'] = sys._getframe(stack_depth).f_locals
   2256             with self.builtin_trap:
-> 2257                 result = fn(*args,**kwargs)
   2258             return result
   2259 

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/IPython/core/magics/pylab.py in pylab(self, line)

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/IPython/core/magic.py in <lambda>(f, *a, **k)
    191     # but it's overkill for just that one bit of state.
    192     def magic_deco(arg):
--> 193         call = lambda f, *a, **k: f(*a, **k)
    194 
    195         if callable(arg):

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/IPython/core/magics/pylab.py in pylab(self, line)
    154             import_all = not args.no_import_all
    155 
--> 156         gui, backend, clobbered = self.shell.enable_pylab(args.gui, import_all=import_all)
    157         self._show_matplotlib_backend(args.gui, backend)
    158         print ("Populating the interactive namespace from numpy and matplotlib")

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py in enable_pylab(self, gui, import_all, welcome_message)
   3169         from IPython.core.pylabtools import import_pylab
   3170 
-> 3171         gui, backend = self.enable_matplotlib(gui)
   3172 
   3173         # We want to prevent the loading of pylab to pollute the user's

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py in enable_matplotlib(self, gui)
   3130                 gui, backend = pt.find_gui_and_backend(self.pylab_gui_select)
   3131 
-> 3132         pt.activate_matplotlib(backend)
   3133         pt.configure_inline_support(self, backend)
   3134 

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/IPython/core/pylabtools.py in activate_matplotlib(backend)
    272     matplotlib.rcParams['backend'] = backend
    273 
--> 274     import matplotlib.pyplot
    275     matplotlib.pyplot.switch_backend(backend)
    276 

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py in <module>()
    107 
    108 from matplotlib.backends import pylab_setup
--> 109 _backend_mod, new_figure_manager, draw_if_interactive, _show = pylab_setup()
    110 
    111 

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/__init__.py in pylab_setup()
     30     # imports. 0 means only perform absolute imports.
     31     backend_mod = __import__(backend_name,
---> 32                              globals(),locals(),[backend_name],0)
     33 
     34     # Things we pull in from all backends

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4agg.py in <module>()
     15 from matplotlib.figure import Figure
     16 
---> 17 from .backend_qt5agg import NavigationToolbar2QTAgg
     18 from .backend_qt5agg import FigureCanvasQTAggBase
     19 

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt5agg.py in <module>()
     16 
     17 from .backend_agg import FigureCanvasAgg
---> 18 from .backend_qt5 import QtCore
     19 from .backend_qt5 import QtGui
     20 from .backend_qt5 import FigureManagerQT

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt5.py in <module>()
     29     figureoptions = None
     30 
---> 31 from .qt_compat import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets, _getSaveFileName, __version__
     32 from matplotlib.backends.qt_editor.formsubplottool import UiSubplotTool
     33 

/root/anaconda3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/qt_compat.py in <module>()
     89     if QT_API in [QT_API_PYQT, QT_API_PYQTv2]:  # PyQt4 API
     90 
---> 91         from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
     92 
     93         try:

ImportError: libSM.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

for all of the lonely people out there banging their head against the wall on this issue (like myself) the solution is:

conda/conda#1051

apt-get install libsm6 libxrender1 libfontconfig1

conda install system