[Numpy-discussion] Should I use pip install numpy in linux?

[Yuxiang Wang]

Dear Nathaniel,

Gotcha. That's very helpful. Thank you so much!

Shawn

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Yuxiang Wang <yw5aj at virginia.edu> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I know that in Windows, we should use either Christoph's package or
>> Anaconda for MKL-optimized numpy. In Linux, the fortran compiler issue
>> is solved, so should I directly used pip install numpy to get numpy
>> with a reasonable BLAS library?
>
> pip install numpy should work fine; whether it gives you a reasonable
> BLAS library will depend on whether you have the development files for
> a reasonable BLAS library installed, and whether numpy's build system
> is able to automatically locate them. Generally this means that if
> you're on a regular distribution and remember to install a decent BLAS
> -dev or -devel package, then you'll be fine.
>
> On Debian/Ubuntu, 'apt install libopenblas-dev' is probably enough to
> ensure something reasonable happens.
>
> Anaconda is also an option on linux if you want MKL (or openblas).
>
> -n
>
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