Incompatible versions of libfreetype.6.dylib

    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.