Newbie problem with Python pandas

[Roy Smith]

In article <_dudnTTyxduONXTNnZ2dnUVZ_oCdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
 RueTheDay <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:05:59 -0800, Miki Tebeka wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday, January 6, 2013 5:57:17 AM UTC-8, RueTheDay wrote:
> >> I am getting the following error when running on Python 2.7 on Ubuntu
> >> 12.04:
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>
> >> AttributeError: 'Series' object has no attribute 'str'
> > I would *guess* that  you have an older version of pandas on your Linux
> > machine.
> > Try "print(pd.__version__)" to see which version you have.
> > 
> > Also, trying asking over at
> > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/pydata which is more
> > dedicated to pandas.
> 
> Thank you!  That was it.  I had 0.7 installed (the latest in the Ubuntu 
> repository).  I downloaded and manually installed 0.10 and now it's 
> working.  Coincidentally, this also fixed a problem I was having with 
> running a matplotlib plot function against a pandas Data Frame (worked 
> with some chart types but not others).
> 
> I'm starting to understand why people rely on easy_install and pip.  
> Thanks again.

Yeah, Ubuntu is a bit of a mess when it comes to pandas and the things 
it depends on.  Apt gets you numpy 1.4.1, which is really old.  Pandas 
won't even install on top of it.

I've got pandas (and numpy, and scipy, and matplotlib) running on a 
Ubuntu 12.04 box.  I installed everything with pip.  My problem at this 
point, however, is I want to replicate that setup in EMR (Amazon's 
Elastic Map-Reduce).  In theory, I could just run "pip install numpy" in 
my mrjob.conf bootstrap, but it's a really long install process, 
building a lot of stuff from source.  Not the kind of thing you want to 
put in a bootstrap for an ephemeral instance.

Does anybody know where I can find a debian package for numpy 1.6?