On 2/18/2010 at 15:04, Christoph Gohlke wrote: > On 2/17/2010 7:30 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Touisteur EmporteUneVache >> <touist...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to install numpy on a WinXP system, on which I have no >>> administrative rights. >> >> I think it is not possible to install NumPy for python 2.6 if you >> don't have admin priviledges. I believe the root of the problem is >> the >> lack of a right C runtime, and there is no easy way to install it >> without admin priviledges, and I have no idea how to fix this. The >> problem is specific to python 2.6 (more exactly because it was built >> with visual studio 2008), so using python 2.5 or 2.4 should not cause >> any issue if that's an option for you. >> >> The other solution is to ask your administrator to install the >> redistributable runtime from VS 2008, >> > > > If everything else fails you can try to install numpy manually: the > file > numpy-1.3.0-sse3.exe, which is created in the %TEMP% directory during > the numpy-1.3.0-win32-superpack-python2.6.exe installation, is a > executable ZIP file and can be opened with any decent archive program, > e.g. WinRAR. From numpy-1.3.0-sse3.exe copy PLATLIB\numpy\* to > C:\Python26\sitepackages\numpy\ and SCRIPTS\* to C:\Python26\Scripts\. > Unlike many other packages, Numpy does not need to have the Microsoft > Visual C++ 2008 redistributable package installed to work. > > To avoid the problem, numpy-1.3.0-sse3.exe could probably be linked > statically to MSVCRT9 like the bdist_wininst installers created by > Python distutils. > > Christoph
Hi David and Christoph, Thank you both very much for your suggestions. I went for Christoph's workaround (manual installation) and it seems to work like a charm. Thanks again. Cheers! _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion