scipy 11 and scipy 12

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:28:44 +0100, Oscar Benjamin wrote:

> On 18 September 2013 03:48, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:06:44 -0400, Susan Lubbers wrote:
>>
>>> Our group is a python 2.7 which is installed in a shared area.  We
>>> have scipy 11 installed in site-packages.  How would I install scipy
>>> 12 so that I used the shared install of python but scipy 12 instead of
>>> 11?
>>
>> If you are using Python 2.6 or better, you should be able to include
>> the option "--user" when installing Scipy using either pip or
>> distutils. I haven't tried these, but:
>>
>> # using pip:
>> pip install --install-option="--user" scipy
> 
> Is there a difference between --install-option="--user" and just passing
> --user directly?

*shrug*

I don't have any experience with pip, so I don't know.


> For Python 2.7 I think that easy_install will be able to install from
> the sourceforge binaries, e.g
> 
>     easy_install --user scipy
> 
> but I may be wrong.

If I recall correctly, and I may not, easy_install doesn't support per-
user installs with the --user option.




-- 
Steven