Install requirements for Cairo / Ubuntu 18.04 about animationswithmanim HOT 4 CLOSED

Thank you very much for this, but I think it would be better if you sent a pull request to the official documentation, in this way the developers can add it to the repository.

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Hi, I considered doing what you suggested and forked manim on my pc. However, looking into its documentation, python 3.7 does not seem to be a "strict" requirement. Indeed, I just gave it a try and it seems to be working also with python 3.6.8. Perhaps I missed some points, so if you know that 3.7 should be used instead I would be more than happy to be aware of future issues I could encounter by using 3.6 instead!

That said, I think the best would be to add a note in this repo to tell that python 3.6 could work as well. I would still mention the python3-dev vs. python3.7-dev issue, it might be helpful for some people. I can do it and send you a PR, or let me know if you'd like to do it directly. At the same time, I will prepare a PR to the main manim repo to add in the docs what you need to install Cairo - from what I see, it is not mentioned at all. In there, I can try to warn about the python3.x-dev issue.

Let me know what you think!

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python 3.7 does not seem to be a "strict" requirement

Well, I was of course mistaken. It is written in the beginning of the README that

Manim runs on python 3.7

I will contact them to know if python 3.6 is ok as well, and also to propose the mentioned PR. Sorry for bothering 😅

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No problem.

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