On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Thomas Jollans <t...@tjol.eu> wrote: > > On 08/12/17 23:57, Larry Martell wrote: > > Trying to install scipy on ubuntu-trusty-64 running Python 2.7.6. > > I STRONGLY recommend moving to Python 3 if you can. The scientific > python ecosystem has had good support for Python 3 for years now. Many > scientific packages, including numpy (the king of scientific > Pythonland), have decided to drop official Python 2 support fairly soon; > numpy will not release any new versions for Python 2 after 2018.
It's not in my control. This is part of a django app that is deployed it many sites all over the world, and my customer wants to make as few changes as possible. > > It's failing with: > > > > $ sudo pip install scipy > > Downloading/unpacking scipy > > Downloading scipy-1.0.0.tar.gz (15.2MB): 15.2MB downloaded > > Running setup.py (path:/tmp/pip_build_root/scipy/setup.py) egg_info > > for package scipy > > /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown > > distribution option: 'python_requires' > > > > Followed by many screens full of errors. Is that just a warning or is > > that the issue? I've installed many other packages without a problem > > on this same system. What is the issue here? > > > > I'm just guessing here, but do you have the latest versions of > distutils, setuptools and pip? It's likely that scipy requires newer > versions of these than your distribution provides. You may have to > upgrade them. I resolved this by installing a newer version of pip. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
