[SciPy-user] installing scipy without root permissions

[Rick Ratzel]

>    Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:00:11 +0200
>    From: "Emanuele Zattin" <emanuelez at gmail.com>
> 
>    Hello,
>    i am trying to install Scipy in my home directory of the Solaris based
>    server of my university.
>    Python is already installed (version 2.3.5) but distutils is not.
>    I have managed to install Numpy locally but Scipy requires distutils i i'm
>    kinda stuck.
>    As far as you know, is it possible to install distutils locally?
> 
>    Emanuele
> 

   Distutils is normally part of the Python standard library for that version of
Python, but I believe some linux distros and apparently others like Solaris put
large chunks of the std. library in a separate package (annoying).

   Here's the link I think you need:

http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/distutils-sig/download


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