Error when running the example_scenes.py file after installation

I’m facing the following error when I run the example file as suggested in the documentation. I am unable to understand the error here.

~/manim$ python -m manim example_scenes.py -pl
Media will be stored in media/. You can change this behavior by writing a different directory to media_dir.txt.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/gautham/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/home/gautham/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/home/gautham/manim/manim.py", line 3, in <module>
    import manimlib.extract_scene
  File "/home/gautham/manim/manimlib/extract_scene.py", line 9, in <module>
    from manimlib.scene.scene import Scene
  File "/home/gautham/manim/manimlib/scene/scene.py", line 11, in <module>
    from manimlib.camera.camera import Camera
  File "/home/gautham/manim/manimlib/camera/camera.py", line 9, in <module>
    import cairo
  File "/home/gautham/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cairo/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from ._cairo import *  # noqa: F401,F403
ImportError: /home/gautham/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cairo/_cairo.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: cairo_tee_surface_index

[luisjparedes]

Hi, I had this same issue and although python 3.6 did solve it I found that it breaks some methods in the Manim Library as it only supports version 0.6.0 and not the current (or future) one.

I managed to get it working nicely using python 3.9, using 3.7 or 3.8 did not work for me.

I hope this comment helps out.

[JusticeBoi]

Hey, thank you for referencing other issues similar to mine, as removing anaconda and using system python3.6 to create virtualenv worked out. Hope this also helps @gautham949’s problem. #637 helped me out. Cheers!