On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Craig Finch <cfi...@ieee.org> wrote:
> I figured it out! I accidentally did something weird. When I built NumPy
> and SciPy, I used the --user option to tell distutils to build them in my
> home directory. I had not realized that --user installs the packages in
> ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/. I was assuming they would be
> installed in ~/lib/python2.7/site-packages, but I didn't notice they were
> "missing" until just now. When I reinstalled NumPy and Scipy using the
> option --prefix=/home/cfinch and then rebuilt matplotlib, everything started
> working. I didn't have to rebuild pycairo or pygtk; I just had to get
> everything in the same location. This is the first I've heard of installing
> anything in a .local directory...why is that even an option???
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
>
It is a standard directory in linux now. Started by the freedesktop.org, I
think. Personally, I prefer it over having ~/lib, ~/bin and such cluttering
my home directory.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
Ben Root
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