On Jun 22, 2010, at 7:11 PM, David wrote: >> Is it better to avoid setuptools/distribute/PyPI altogether? > > Yes, unless you need their features (which in the case of numpy is > mostly egg, since installing from pypi rarely works anyway).
OK, installing from source solved the problem (and so did downgrading to ver 1.3 with easy_install, btw). Thanks for the help, everyone. I found generic NumPy install instructions difficult to locate. The link is almost a footnote to the platform specific stuff on the SciPy site and easily missed. I think it would be very helpful to have a sentence or two in INSTALL.txt, before diving into platform specifics, so I am sending this patch in case you want to use it: --- INSTALL.txt.orig 2010-06-22 21:23:47.000000000 -0700 +++ INSTALL.txt 2010-06-22 22:03:51.000000000 -0700 @@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ .. Contents:: +Basic Installation +================== + +Following the installation of any needed compilers and numerical libraries, +NumPy is built and installed by: + + python setup.py install + PREREQUISITES ============= @@ -27,7 +35,7 @@ Python must also be compiled with the zlib module enabled. -2) nose__ (pptional) 0.10.3 or later +2) nose__ (optional) 0.10.3 or later This is required for testing numpy, but not for using it. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion