scipy

[Larry Martell]

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Thomas Jollans <tjol at tjol.eu> wrote:
>
> On 08/12/17 23:57, Larry Martell wrote:
> > Trying to install scipy on ubuntu-trusty-64 running Python 2.7.6.
>
> I STRONGLY recommend moving to Python 3 if you can. The scientific
> python ecosystem has had good support for Python 3 for years now. Many
> scientific packages, including numpy (the king of scientific
> Pythonland), have decided to drop official Python 2 support fairly soon;
> numpy will not release any new versions for Python 2 after 2018.

It's not in my control. This is part of a django app that is deployed
it many sites all over the world, and my customer wants to make as few
changes as possible.

> > It's failing with:
> >
> > $ sudo pip install scipy
> > Downloading/unpacking scipy
> >   Downloading scipy-1.0.0.tar.gz (15.2MB): 15.2MB downloaded
> >   Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/scipy/setup.py) egg_info
> > for package scipy
> >     /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown
> > distribution option: 'python_requires'
> >
> > Followed by many screens full of errors. Is that just a warning or is
> > that the issue? I've installed many other packages without a problem
> > on this same system. What is the issue here?
> >
>
> I'm just guessing here, but do you have the latest versions of
> distutils, setuptools and pip? It's likely that scipy requires newer
> versions of these than your distribution provides. You may have to
> upgrade them.

I resolved this by installing a newer version of pip.