Install Cairo Graphics and PyCairo on Ubuntu 14.04 / Linux Mint 17

Cairo is a 2D graphics library implemented as a library written in the C programming language but if you’d like to use Python programming language, you should also install Python bindings for Cairo. This guide will go through installation of Cairo Graphics library version 1.14.2 (most recent) and py2cairo Python bindings version 1.10.1 (also most recent). Install Cairo It’s very easy with the following repository. Just add it, update your packages and install.