Installing scipy with pip

Question

It is possible to install numpy with pip using pip install numpy.

Is there a similar possibility with scipy? (Doing pip install scipy does not work)

Update

The package scipy is now available to be installed with pip, so the question is not relevant anymore.

Answer 1

An attempt to easy_install indicates a problem with their listing in the Python Package Index, which pip searches.

easy_install scipy
Searching for scipy
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/scipy/
Reading http://www.scipy.org
Reading http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=27747&package_id=19531
Reading http://new.scipy.org/Wiki/Download

All is not lost, however; pip can install from Subversion, Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar repos. SciPy uses SVN:

pip install svn+http://svn.scipy.org/svn/scipy/trunk/#egg=scipy

Since Numpy is a dependency, it should be installed as well.

Answer 2

I can get scipy installed with "pip install scipy" if I first install blas, lapack and gcc-fortran as system packages (I'm using Arch Linux).

Answer 3

In Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid), I could successfully pip install scipy (within a virtualenv) after installing some of its dependencies, in particular:

$ sudo apt-get install libamd2.2.0 libblas3gf libc6 libgcc1 libgfortran3 liblapack3gf libumfpack5.4.0 libstdc++6 build-essential gfortran libatlas-sse2-dev python-all-dev