Gary Wessle wrote: > "Raymond L. Buvel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>When installing from source on a Debian system, you want the installed >>package to wind up in /usr/local/lib/python2.x/site-packages (where x >>represents the version of Python you are running the installer from). >>This allows you to keep it separate from the apt managed directories and >>allows for easy removal/upgrade. So the command you want to execute >>from root is >> >>python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local > > sorry if this is boring since I am not a seasoned Linux user. > > setup.py isn't located at the root, do you mean, execute the command above > from root, as to do this > :~$ cd / > :/$ python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local > or > :/$ python home/fred/numpy-0.9.6/setup.py install --pref... > or AS root > :/# python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local > or > :/# python home/fred/numpy-0.9.6/setup.py install --pref... I think he meant "as the root user". You will probably want to build numpy as a regular user and then only install as the root user. You will probably want to use sudo(1) to gain root privileges. You can read the sudo man-page for more information on how to do that. ~$ cd numpy-0.9.6 ~/numpy-0.9.6$ python setup.py build ~/numpy-0.9.6$ sudo python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local However, instead of setting --prefix every time you execute setup.py for every Python package, it will be easier for you to create the file ~/.pydistutils.cfg with the contents [install] prefix=/usr/local See http://docs.python.org/inst/config-syntax.html for more information. Then, you can just do ~$ cd numpy-0.9.6 ~/numpy-0.9.6$ python setup.py build ~/numpy-0.9.6$ sudo python setup.py install >>By the way, to get NymPy to use the high-performance libraries, you must >>install these libraries and the associated -dev packages before running >>the Python install. > > I wish to know the debian names for those packages, my first guess > would be refblas3 under testing since blas is not available for > debian/testing, there is also > refblas3-dev Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3, static library > which I don't have installed. > > would refblas3 be all what NymPy need to the high-performance? No. refblas3 provides the reference (unoptimized) implementation of the BLAS. In Ubuntu (a Debian-based distribution) the package that you would want is atlas3-base-dev. It should have a similar name in your version of Debian (possibly atlas-dev or atlas3-dev or some other variant). If you need more help, you will probably get more focused help on the numpy-discussion mailing list. http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
