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liumilan
liumilan

Reputation: 365

scipy and numpy install on linux without root

I am trying to install scipy and numpy. Because I don't have root privileges, when I tried to install numpy first, I typed python setup.py install --prefix=/data3/home which worked. When I then tried to install scipy it reported this error:

File "setup.py", line 230, in <module>
    setup_package()
  File "setup.py", line 218, in setup_package
    from numpy.distutils.core import setup
ImportError: No module named numpy.distutils.core

How can I fix this issue?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 8488

Answers (2)

ev-br
ev-br

Reputation: 26050

A more standard way around is to make a per-user install like described in PEP 370 :

pip install numpy --user

Or use a virtualenv.

Upvotes: 6

user2629998
user2629998

Reputation:

export PYTHONPATH="/data3/home/:$PYTHONPATH" should solve your problem.

What this does is that it appends your custom path /data3/home to the standard PYTHONPATH variable; all Python scripts will first check /data3/home for libraries (and hopefully find the one you need) before checking the system-wide directories (usually under /usr/lib/python*).

Upvotes: 2

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