Google Colab - ImportError: The class MatplotlibDrawer needs pylatexenc

Question

When I run the following command
qc.draw(output='mpl')

for my circuit qc, I get this error:
ImportError: The class MatplotlibDrawer needs pylatexenc

How do I address this issue? Below an image of my problem

Update ------ 
Installation steps on Google Colaboratoy: 
!pip install pylatexenc ?.

The installation attempt (was successful and the installed pylatexenc  has version 2.7.)

user9318 · Answer

The 0.15.2 is actually the version of your qiskit-terra package not Qiskit itself.
I'd suggest you to check the version by  qiskit.__qiskit_version__. See the documentation.
If all packages have the latest version, you simply need to install pylatexenc in the same env where your Qiskit has been installed. Just by typing pip install pylatexenc in terminal!
In case you don't have the latest version of Qiskit.
You need to upgrade it first by pip install qiskit --upgrade and then install pylatexenc.
Update 
For Google Colab, this thread from Stackoverflow might be relevant.
%pip install pylatexenc

vardhan_negi · Answer

use %matplotlin inline before executing draw('mpl') here is the link for more info

dushyanth · Answer

It's an issue with latest Qiskit I've noticed. Use following command to downgrade it to previous version(0.16.1 specifically) for the time being.

!pip install
qiskit==0.16.1

Sona_QC · Answer

In my case, running same command ( with !pip  install pylatexenc) inside the jupyter notebook solved the issue!

Google Colab - ImportError: The class MatplotlibDrawer needs pylatexenc

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