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Re: [Starcluster] NumPy and SciPy tests fail on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

From: Andrew Straw <no email>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:21:30 -0700

Justin Riley wrote:
> Hi Damian,
>
> Good to hear you fixed the issue. I will certainly need to add a note about
> installing numpy/scipy/lapack/openmpi from ubuntu. These packages have been
> custom compiled and installed (see
> http://starcluster.scripts.mit.edu/~starcluster/wiki/index.php?title=StarCluster_AMI_Cookbook).
> Openmpi happens to be recompiled into a deb package so it's easy to reinstall,
> however, numpy/scipy/lapack require a bit more work if you clobber them with
> apt-get.
>
Justin, you could use stdeb to custom install Python packages (e.g.
numpy/scipy) while letting dpkg know about it -- thus preventing
clobbering between dpkg and distutils. See
http://github.com/astraw/stdeb . Hopefully it's pretty straightforward
to use.

-Andrew
Received on Mon Apr 19 2010 - 14:21:55 EDT
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