SciPy/Python install on Ubuntu

Question

I\'m currently following the tutorial Installing the SciPy Stack to install SciPy on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) (I can\'t use apt-get install

Answer 1

You're trying to build SciPy from source.

If you just want to install SciPy, use this command:

sudo apt-get install python-scipy

Answer 2

PyPM is a good way to install it. The version is beta 0.10.1 and it includes all of the dependencies. You need Active Python to access PyPM, but that you should be able to install easily.

pypm install scipi

Answer 3

My usual work flow is to use a virtualenv to have a Python distribution with up-to-date packages.

Within this environment you can than install and update all packages you need with pip and without any sudo calls.

So if you only need SciPy (and NumPy) this would be:

$ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv python-pip
$ sudo apt-get build-dep python-numpy python-scipy
$ # Create virtualenv in home
$ virtualenv .myenv
$ # Activate the virtualenv
$ source .myenv/bin/activate
(myenv)$ pip install -U numpy
(myenv)$ pip install -U scipy

(If you don't have root access, you can install virtualenv and pip as described here. However, you need the dependencies of NumPy and SciPy.)

You can include source .myenv/bin/activate in your .bash_profile and your shell will always start with that environment. If you use requirement files it is easy to install and maintain the same environments on all your machines.

Answer 4

I had the same problem as the OP (on Red Hat Linux 5.7 for me; yes, I know that's old) and all was fixed by installing the ATLAS headers (and "static libs", it says) via:

 yum install atlas-devel

Answer 5

For Fedora 20:

pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper
mkvirtualenv scipy_project
sudo yum-buildep scipy
pip install scipy

I hope it helps!

Answer 6

For Ubuntu 20.04 on Raspberry Pi 4, Use following:

sudo apt-get install libblas3 liblapack3 liblapack-dev libblas-dev gfortran libatlas-base-dev

and then use pip to install latest packages.

pip install scipy