Incompatible versions of libfreetype.6.dylib

[Samuel Dupree]

   I'm running Python 3.8.8 under the Anaconda distribution ver. custom
   on a Mac Pro (2019) desktop running Mac OSX ver. 11.6.

   I'm getting the following error message:

   ImportError:
   
dlopen(/Users/user/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.cpython-38-darwin.so
   <http://ft2font.cpython-38-darwin.so>, 2): Library not loaded:
   @rpath/libfreetype.6.dylib
      Referenced from:
   
/Users/user/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/matplotlib/ft2font.cpython-38-darwin.so
   <http://ft2font.cpython-38-darwin.so>
      Reason: Incompatible library version:
   ft2font.cpython-38-darwin.so <http://ft2font.cpython-38-darwin.so>
   requires version 24.0.0 or later, but libfreetype.6.dylib provides
   version 23.0.0
   (base) user@Mac-Pro work %

   Any suggestion as to how to fix this?

   Sam Dupree.