installing numpy

[Gary Wessle]

Hi

I am trying to install NumPy in my debian/testing linux
2.6.15-1-686. 

with no numpy for debian/testing, I am left alone, since the
experimental version available by debian will result in a dependency
nightmares,

so after unpacking the downloaded file "numpy-0.9.6.tar.gz"
which crated a directory in my home directory called numpy-0.9.6 with 

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-rw-r--r--  1 fred fred 1537 2006-01-21 19:12 LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 fred fred  246 2006-01-22 12:44 MANIFEST.in
drwxr-xr-x 11 fred fred 4096 2006-05-08 20:06 numpy
-rw-r--r--  1 fred fred 1472 2006-03-14 19:27 PKG-INFO
-rw-r--r--  1 fred fred  476 2006-01-07 08:29 README.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 fred fred 1164 2006-05-08 20:06 semantic.cache
-rwxr-xr-x  1 fred fred 2516 2006-03-13 18:02 setup.py
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$cat README.txt
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To install:

python setup.py install

The setup.py script will take advantage of fast BLAS on your system if
it can find it.  You can help the process with a site.cfg file.

If fast BLAS and LAPACK cannot be found, then a slower default version
is used. 
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do I issue the command above "python setup.py install" from the
unpacked directory numpy-0.9.6, would it put the packages in the
correct places in my system, I was under the impression that a
numpy.py is unpacked and then I place it the sys.path but this is not
the case here.


thanks