tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9238405.post9119330893270357319..comments2024-03-18T02:04:50.380-07:00Comments on Agile Testing: Installing Python scientific and statistics packages on UbuntuGrig Gheorghiuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9238405.post-38403993220938761942013-05-09T17:25:51.256-07:002013-05-09T17:25:51.256-07:00A couple of minor updates:
HDF5 is 1.8.10
pytables...A couple of minor updates:<br />HDF5 is 1.8.10<br />pytables is out of beta, 2.4.0<br /><br />Thanks Grig, a nice post.chris grijalvanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9238405.post-24079211778242188882013-03-07T09:11:48.429-08:002013-03-07T09:11:48.429-08:00Great post. Couple of questions:
a. When installi...Great post. Couple of questions:<br /><br />a. When installing with source files from sourceforge, what directory is numpy and scipy installed in?<br />b. Can the latest releases of numpy (1.7) and scipy (0.11) be installed with this method or will Ubuntu complain as it is usually a few releases behind?<br /><br />Many thanks!dbvnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9238405.post-2682173112911284362012-12-07T12:58:46.402-08:002012-12-07T12:58:46.402-08:00Thank you very much for your clear instruction of ...Thank you very much for your clear instruction of installation which helped me to install scipy 0.11.0 which otherwise could have been difficult!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9238405.post-81392693665846891072012-10-18T10:00:38.037-07:002012-10-18T10:00:38.037-07:00Thanks very much for this post. I was struggling a...Thanks very much for this post. I was struggling a lot to install scipy. Your post REALLY helpedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9238405.post-60796356574160207792012-10-18T09:59:33.942-07:002012-10-18T09:59:33.942-07:00Thanks very much for this post. I was struggling a...Thanks very much for this post. I was struggling a lot to install scipy. Your post REALLY helpedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9238405.post-2687354335195758692012-09-12T01:29:34.663-07:002012-09-12T01:29:34.663-07:00I wasn't able to install pandas 0.8.1 by this ...I wasn't able to install pandas 0.8.1 by this route, on Ubuntu 12.04. Fortunately the Neurodebian folks are maintaining a compatible version here:<br />http://neuro.debian.net/index.html#how-to-use-this-repository<br /><br />After adding a repo it's just and apt-get install python-pandas away :)<br /><br />(Thanks Neurodebian!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9238405.post-45916691461617940722012-07-12T16:06:37.151-07:002012-07-12T16:06:37.151-07:00Thanks, Matt! Yes, you're right, we need to co...Thanks, Matt! Yes, you're right, we need to count our blessings ;-)Grig Gheorghiuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9238405.post-16402657229968698102012-07-12T15:58:25.172-07:002012-07-12T15:58:25.172-07:00On my 10.04 machine, I was able to
pip -U numpy;...On my 10.04 machine, I was able to <br /><br />pip -U numpy; pip -U pandas <br /><br /><br />But I needed to get scipy installed by a non-pip mechanism. Somewhat annoying, but it could be worse (MacOS...)matt harrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01188550909334466290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9238405.post-76462937867059665422012-07-10T11:14:30.365-07:002012-07-10T11:14:30.365-07:00Ralf -- thanks for the comment, I updated the post...Ralf -- thanks for the comment, I updated the post.<br /><br />Anonymous -- I tried the pip/easy_install route, hit a lot of roadblocks, had to give up. If you get it to work I'd appreciate some pointers on how you did it.<br /><br />GrigGrig Gheorghiuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17863511617654196370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9238405.post-3851160460499289282012-07-10T11:12:39.037-07:002012-07-10T11:12:39.037-07:00You can install the ubuntu packages and update eve...You can install the ubuntu packages and update everything with pip in a virtualenv. I think there is no need to install it directly from source.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9238405.post-60481976286481879482012-07-10T04:03:20.725-07:002012-07-10T04:03:20.725-07:00Statsmodels is not a prereq for pandas, but pandas...Statsmodels is not a prereq for pandas, but pandas is for statsmodels. So you should be able to install it now.Ralf Gommershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10189904547449375563noreply@blogger.com