title: Matplotlibrc needs to be updated?
body: <p>So I wiped Python 3.6 some weeks ago and seem to have incorrectly reinstalled matplotlib etc because I've been getting a bunch of errors for different things.</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to run a script that displays a number of images side by side using subplot. Tried it from the command line, worked fine. But when I write it all up in a script and try to run it (I have about 24 images) I get the following error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>You probably need to get an updated matplotlibrc file from
    <a href="http://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/matplotlibrc.template" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/matplotlibrc.template</a>
    or from the matplotlib source distribution Traceback (most recent call
    last):   File "./merge_pics.py", line 8, in 
        fig=plt.figure()   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 527, in
    figure
        **kwargs)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py",
    line 84, in new_figure_manager
        return new_figure_manager_given_figure(num, figure)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_tkagg.py",
    line 101, in new_figure_manager_given_figure
        icon_img = Tk.PhotoImage(file=icon_fname)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3370, in <strong>init</strong>
        Image.<strong>init</strong>(self, 'photo', name, cnf, master, **kw)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 3324, in <strong>init</strong>
        self.tk.call(('image', 'create', imgtype, name,) + options)
    _tkinter.TclError: couldn't open "/usr/share/matplotlib/mpl-data/images/matplotlib.gif": no such file
    or directory</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>When I click on the link I can't tell where I'm supposed to get the updated matplotlibrc file.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried wget <a href="http://github" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://github</a>.... but still get the same error</p>
  
  <p>Matplotlib is definitely installed because trying to plot simple things is working so I can't figure out what's going wrong</p>