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I have done, apt-get install fontforge on my ubuntu system. When i do import fontforge in my python code, it throws error as, No module named fontforge.

When i do, pip install fontforge, it throws error as,,

 Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement fontforge (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for fontforge

How can i install fontforge's python libs?

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You may want to install python3-fontforge.

sudo apt-get install python3-fontforge

After that you should be able to use fontforge in ubuntu's python version 3.

You can verify by doing /usr/bin/python3 -c "import fontforge;print(fontforge)". This should now print the path to the fontforge python module.

Hugo Manrique
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Try installing a specific version 

pip install fontforge==1.0

For me , the above command completes without errors. If any errors, upgrade pip using 

pip install --upgrade pip

And try again. You may try allow externally hosted files also.

pip install --allow-all-external fontforge
cutteeth
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  • What problems are you trying to solve with these instructions? Have you tried them? It does not work for me. – cel Sep 21 '15 at 06:52