[SciPy-User] Installing NumPy/SciPy on Windows without the use of Pip

[Whalen, Joel C]

Thank you so much! Unfortunately, pip is telling me that the .whl is not a supported wheel on this platform. I'm on 64 bit, and this is true even after I use the amd64.whl. Same error. 

Also deleting that directory in my site-packages folder was a huge pain because Windows didn't even let Administrator approval remove it. I had to rd /s /q to get rid of it.

All in all, windows really doesn't want me to install numpy apparently.

-----Original Message-----
From: SciPy-User [mailto:scipy-user-bounces at scipy.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Brett
Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 1:23 PM
To: SciPy Users List <scipy-user at scipy.org>
Subject: Re: [SciPy-User] Installing NumPy/SciPy on Windows without the use of Pip

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Jason Sachs <jmsachs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Use Anaconda Python! It's much easier to get going with numpy and 
> scipy and matplotlib.
>
> https://www.continuum.io/anaconda-overview
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Whalen, Joel C 
> <joel.c.whalen at intel.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> I hope I am in the right place with my request. I haven’t been able 
>> to find anything on stack overflow or your website that gives 
>> alternatives to building your python package without the use of Pip. 
>> My work network does not allow the network traffic of an automated 
>> web tool such as Pip, so I’ve been installing all python packages manually.
>>
>>
>>
>> The problem is when I go to “python setup.py install” in 
>> C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\numpy-1.11+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win32\numpy, 
>> the setup file does not allow you to invoke it directly and instead 
>> prints “This is the wrong setup.py file to run”. My question is: What 
>> *is* the correct setup.py file? I can’t seem to find it in the source 
>> code or anyone talking about this online. Perhaps I’m approaching 
>> this incorrectly, and would appreciate any and all input.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your consideration,

From your path, it looks like you have downloaded one of Christoph Gohlke's binaries from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ and unzipped it into your site-packages directory.  Is that the case?  If so, you need to first delete the numpy-1.11+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win32 directory.

Next, I suggest you download all the wheels you need from Christoph's site to a directory, maybe c:\wheels, then:

cd c:\wheels
pip install numpy-1.11+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl

etc.

The `setup.py` files are for installing from the source distributions, but binary distributions like wheels (*.whl) are a better idea on Windows.

Cheers,

Matthew
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