difficulty in installing SciPy and Numpy in Ubuntu(9.04)?

Question

HI folks. I have difficulty in installing these items in Ubuntu.......plz help me as soon as possible.iam experiencing errors such as no module name found......sometimes certain libraries are not found.......plz folks can all of u state the basic libraries required for installing these items and where to find them

Answer 1

Ooops, I have lost my crystal ball.

Answer 2

Let's start at the beginning - do you have Python installed and running on Ubuntu? If not, you won't have NumPy or SciPy, either.

Did you download NumPy and SciPy and unpack them to your hard drive? Do you see directories that contain setup.py somewhere?

Usually it's python setup.py install in a command shell to install modules like NumPy and SciPy. See if that works for you.

Answer 3

If you are looking for a simple and convenient way to install numpy, scipy, and many other tools for scientific programming, you should give a look at Python(x,y).

Answer 4

There are Numpy and SciPy packages already in the Ubuntu repositories (SciPy is in the universe repo, you will have to enable this). No need to compile anything. You didn't state your Ubuntu version, so the links show the versions for Ubuntu Lucid (10.04LTS).

ps: Sorry, only one link allowed. But you see the pattern. ;-)