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Need to mention the 'graphviz' library

Open beckykd opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

URL to the relevant documentation

https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/transpile/custom-backend#visualize-backends

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Describe the fix.

Plotting a coupling map requires the graphviz library. We should list it as a requirement in this topic.

On Mac it seems simple to install, but on Windows, there's a whole big process. I didn't have time to investigate further, but wanted to note the requirement.

MissingOptionalLibraryError: "The 'graphviz' library is required to use 'plot_coupling_map'. You can install it with ''brew install graphviz' if on Mac, or by downloding it from their website'."

beckykd avatar May 15 '24 20:05 beckykd

related to #1286

javabster avatar May 16 '24 14:05 javabster