pip trouble

[Mark Lawrence]

On 30/10/2015 17:45, Neal Becker wrote:
> Chris Warrick wrote:
>
>> On 30 October 2015 at 13:14, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have a custom-compiled numpy 1.10.0.  But as you see, pip wants to
>>> install a new numpy, even though the requirement (numpy>=1.6) was already
>>> satisfied. WTF?
>>>
>>> All are installed into --user.
>>>
>>> This is on fedora 22 linux.
>>>
>>> pip install --up --user matplotlib
>>> Collecting matplotlib
>>>    Using cached matplotlib-1.5.0.tar.gz
>>> Collecting numpy>=1.6 (from matplotlib)
>>>    Using cached numpy-1.10.1.tar.gz
>>> Requirement already up-to-date: python-dateutil in
>>> ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from matplotlib)
>>> Collecting pytz (from matplotlib)
>>>    Using cached pytz-2015.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl
>>> Collecting cycler (from matplotlib)
>>>    Using cached cycler-0.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
>>> Collecting pyparsing!=2.0.4,>=1.5.6 (from matplotlib)
>>>    Using cached pyparsing-2.0.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl
>>> Collecting six>=1.5 (from python-dateutil->matplotlib)
>>>    Using cached six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
>>> Installing collected packages: numpy, pytz, six, cycler, pyparsing,
>>> matplotlib
>>>    Found existing installation: numpy 1.10.0
>>>      DEPRECATION: Uninstalling a distutils installed project (numpy) has
>>>      been
>>> deprecated and will be removed in a future version. This is due to the
>>> fact that uninstalling a distutils project will only partially uninstall
>>> the project.
>>>      Uninstalling numpy-1.10.0:
>>>        Successfully uninstalled numpy-1.10.0
>>>    Running setup.py install for numpy
>>>
>>> --
>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
>> You used --up (aka -U, --upgrade).  That option tries to upgrade the
>> package you asked for *and* all dependencies. And since numpy 1.10.1
>> is newer than what you have installed, pip will try to install that.
>>
>
> How can I ask to upgrade just matplotlib, and not deps?
>

Try https://pip.readthedocs.org/en/stable/reference/pip_install/ or "pip 
install --help"

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Mark Lawrence