On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:38 am, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 11/09/2016 02:10 PM, BartC wrote: >> Good point, I use Ubuntu under Windows. It should be child's play, >> except... 'sudo apt-get install numpy' or 'python-numpy' doesn't work. > > Something is wrong with your setup then.
Bart has been around long enough to know that saying "it doesn't work" is useless. If he wanted a solution, he'd post the actual command he gave, and the error message he received. I suspect he just wanted to whinge :-) > Because both python-numpy and > python3-numpy are in the standard ubuntu repositories, including the one > that comes with the Ubuntu windows Linux subsystem. I just installed > them and they appear to work fine. > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install python-numpy Indeed. But there could be any number of reasons why "it doesn't work", starting with wrong repos in the apt-get config, typos in the command, wrong password for sudo, internet connection is down, or keyboard not plugged in. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
