Installing NumPy with pip fails on Ubuntu

Question

When I try:

$ sudo pip install numpy

on my Ubuntu 12.04 server, I get:

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Answer 1

pip won't install the necessary compilers for you.

If you simply want numpy, and don't need to go through pip, use

sudo apt-get install python-numpy

and you'll get all the requisites as well (such as python-dev).