scipy error invalid path

[Mark Lawrence]

On 31/01/2014 18:33, e-letter wrote:
> Readers,
>
> Used the community edition service of activepython web site to install
> python27. Within the 'bin' directory, received the following error:
>
> $ ./easy_install-2.7 scipy
> Searching for scipy
> Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/scipy/
> Best match: scipy 0.13.2
> Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/scipy/scipy-0.13.2.zip#md5=9befa30e546fba762a0c1695a509f731
> Processing scipy-0.13.2.zip
> Writing /tmp/easy_install-Ef9P39/scipy-0.13.2/setup.cfg
> Running scipy-0.13.2/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir
> /tmp/easy_install-Ef9P39/scipy-0.13.2/egg-dist-tmp-6SO8yB
> /path/to/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/distutils/system_info.py:564:
> UserWarning: Specified path /home/apy/atlas/lib is invalid.
>    warnings.warn('Specified path %s is invalid.' % d)
>
> There is no directory in the host computer with this home directory
> name. How to solve please?
>

This is a warning and not an error so I'd assume that scipy has been 
successfully installed.  Have you checked this?

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Mark Lawrence