How to invoke ipython in Mac OS X?

[Lou Pecora]

In article <4pk8r8FjagluU1 at uni-berlin.de>,
 "Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:

> Lou Pecora wrote:
> 
> > I installed the SciPy superpackage and have pylab, matplotlib, scipy,
> > and numpy apparently running well.  But I want to use matplotlib/pylab
> > interactively.  The instructions suggest doing this in IPython.  But
> > using ipython on the command line gives me an error.  The system doesn't
> > know the command.  Apparently there is no ipython executable in one of
> > the bin directories.  I thought the superpackage would add that
> > automatically, but I guess not.
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me how to get ipython running on my MacOSX 10.4 system?
> 
> This is just a guess - but did you check your
> 
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin


Just checked it. Nothing there for IPython.

> directory for the ipython-binary? Usually, that will be the prefix of
> anything compiled/installed to framework-builds. So either you add that to
> your path, or create links to e.g. /usr/local/bin

I'm not quite following this last suggestion.  Can you explain more. 
Sorry.

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