Hi I am trying to install NumPy in my debian/testing linux 2.6.15-1-686.
with no numpy for debian/testing, I am left alone, since the experimental version available by debian will result in a dependency nightmares, so after unpacking the downloaded file "numpy-0.9.6.tar.gz" which crated a directory in my home directory called numpy-0.9.6 with **************************************************************** -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 1537 2006-01-21 19:12 LICENSE.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 246 2006-01-22 12:44 MANIFEST.in drwxr-xr-x 11 fred fred 4096 2006-05-08 20:06 numpy -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 1472 2006-03-14 19:27 PKG-INFO -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 476 2006-01-07 08:29 README.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 1164 2006-05-08 20:06 semantic.cache -rwxr-xr-x 1 fred fred 2516 2006-03-13 18:02 setup.py **************************************************************** **************************************************************** $cat README.txt ... To install: python setup.py install The setup.py script will take advantage of fast BLAS on your system if it can find it. You can help the process with a site.cfg file. If fast BLAS and LAPACK cannot be found, then a slower default version is used. ... **************************************************************** do I issue the command above "python setup.py install" from the unpacked directory numpy-0.9.6, would it put the packages in the correct places in my system, I was under the impression that a numpy.py is unpacked and then I place it the sys.path but this is not the case here. thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list