Hi
How do I build numpy 1.5 on ubuntu 10.10? The instructions I found seems outdated or not clear.
Thanks
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One way to try, which isn't guaranteed to work, but worth a shot is to see if uupdate can sucessfully update the package. Get a tarball of numpy 1.5. run "apt-get source numpy" which should fetch and unpack the current source from ubuntu. cd into this source directory and run "uupdate ../numpytarballname". This should update the old source package using the newer tarball. then you can try building with "apt-get build-dep numpy" and "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot". This will require you have the build-essential and fakeroot packages installed.
stew
2010-10-14 14:42:57
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I used pip to install after getting the required compiler/build tools:
sudo apt-get -y install build-essential
wget http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py && sudo python ./distribute_setup.py
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install numpy
I used easy_install to get pip and then pip to get numpy.
hughdbrown
2010-10-14 17:07:14
What about numpy dependencies? pip can only take care of python dependencies but not OS dependencies. Someone suggested to install the foloowing packages: python-dev libatlas-base-dev python-nose. The numpy docs say to install nose instead of python-nose because python-nose is buggy. What about the build_ext --fcompiler=gnu95 install option? http://advice.mechanicalkern.com/question/15/how-to-build-numpyscipy-on-ubuntu-or-debian
pablo
2010-10-14 18:13:00
I don't know about any of those things. I do know that when I executed the instructions above, I got a working version of 1.5.0: `import numpy; numpy.version.version; '1.5.0'`
hughdbrown
2010-10-15 17:15:34