David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-09 06:35]: > rex wrote: > > > > I've been using SUSE since version > > 6.4, and it's always a battle to get Numpy/SciPy running. > > This is really Suse fault, honnestly. As Fedora, they have mostly broken > blas or lapack, or at least had for a long time.
Yes, I know. They have released some very broken versions recently. 10.1 was so bad that they remastered it. 10.2 will not install from a SATA CD/DVD without an obscure trick. The bug was reported a number of times, but the priority was set so low -- even after it was pointed out that it is a show-stopper for most people -- that it did not get fixed. Software installs from YAST are extremely tedious. 10.3 is supposed to be better, but who knows? > I would go as far as > advising you to install a distribution which packages its software > correctly, like debian: you can install it on par with your opensuse by > using a chroot jail, or any other mean. > I tried Debian a couple of years ago and the Devil I know (somewhat) seemed a better choice. Perhaps I should try again. > > distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: invalid Python installation: > > unable to open /usr/lib/python2.5/config/Makefile (No such file or > > +directory) > Did you install python-devel, or something like this ? Ah, I had this problem the last time also, and Robert Kern kindly suggested the same thing. I'd totally forgotten about it. :( > > There is a science repository linked from > > http://www.scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Linux > > > > http://repos.opensuse.org/science/ > > > > I tried to install from the RPMs there, but the recursive dependency > > chain broke when a gfortran lib that isn't there was required. I also > > wonder if there was ANY testing by the packagers. > > > > http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/ashigabou > > > > Times out. :( > > Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of server issues on the service... Today it responded and I installed Numpy, LAPACK and refblas from there using the Smart package manager. It works. :) Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Nov 27 2006, 19:14:46) [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import numpy >>> numpy.test() Found 5 tests for numpy.distutils.misc_util Found 3 tests for numpy.lib.getlimits Found 31 tests for numpy.core.numerictypes Found 32 tests for numpy.linalg Found 13 tests for numpy.core.umath Found 4 tests for numpy.core.scalarmath Found 9 tests for numpy.lib.arraysetops Found 42 tests for numpy.lib.type_check Found 188 tests for numpy.core.multiarray Found 3 tests for numpy.fft.helper Found 36 tests for numpy.core.ma Found 1 tests for numpy.lib.ufunclike Found 1 tests for numpy.fft.fftpack Found 12 tests for numpy.lib.twodim_base Found 10 tests for numpy.core.defmatrix Found 4 tests for numpy.ctypeslib Found 41 tests for numpy.lib.function_base Found 2 tests for numpy.lib.polynomial Found 9 tests for numpy.core.records Found 29 tests for numpy.core.numeric Found 4 tests for numpy.lib.index_tricks Found 47 tests for numpy.lib.shape_base Found 0 tests for __main__ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ran 526 tests in 0.474s OK >>> Thanks much for the help. Now, I'm going to try to build from source again using MKL. I'd forgotten that I posted what I had to do to make it work on 24 Jan 2007. -rex _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
