[SciPy-user] Problems installing on Suse 9.1

[tom fogal]

 <20041104230547.34220.qmail at web203.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com>Barry Drake writes:
>I decided to ignore the error and let YaST install
>Numeric.  I then installed scipy and from Idle
>imported the packages.  Everything seems to be found
>ok.

Excellent.

>Are there some simple examples I can try to test the
>installation?

Have you tried scipy.test ?

tfogal at thetis tfogal $ python
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Sep 29 2004, 14:29:41) 
[GCC 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r2, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)] on
linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import scipy
>>> scipy.test()

-tom

>> >When I try to install the Numeric .rpm using YaST2,
>> I
>> >get a conflict error:
>> >
>> >python-base not available
>> 
>> Sounds like you haven't installed python first, and
>> yast can't find the
>> package for some reason.
>> 
>> >Has anyone seen this error before?
>> 
>> Try installing python, python-dev, python-*, etc.
>> and see if that
>> helps.
>> 
>> -tom