On 10/18/2010 10:45 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:07:42 -0400, Ian Goodfellow wrote: > >> To do a standard installation, run >> sudo python setup.py install >> from inside the numpy directory > > Preferably, > > sudo python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local > > and then you don't mess up your package manager.
Ubuntu actually does this by default (i.e. the default prefix expands to /usr/local on ubuntu and debian). But I think we should tell people to use the --user for python 2.6 and above by default: that's the safest method, does not require sudo and works on every platform, cheers, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion