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How can I upgrade to a higher scipy (say 0.8.0) with a minimum amount of dependency hell?

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sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev gfortran python-pip

then

sudo pip install scipy

or, if you already have another version of scipy installed

sudo pip install --upgrade scipy
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I dug around a bit (quite a bit actually). Initially I tried installing enthoughts python (EPD 7.0) it all looks nice and self-contained. Oddly enough though, one of the things I needed to run (spyder, check it out, brilliant IDE if your playing around with python in the natural sciences) would segfault. I wasn't able to find the problem (yet) so I had to move on.

Then I tried what I should have done in the first place, namely choosing newer debian packages - turns out the dependencies aren't as frightening as I thought: installed natty's numpy and scipy and so far, all seems to work.

sudo dpkg -i python-numpy_1.5.1-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-scipy_0.8.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb

with the result that

$ python -c 'import scipy; print(scipy.__version__)'
0.8.0
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  • Good to know -- thanks for posting the complete solution.
    – belacqua
    Apr 17, 2011 at 23:41
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As found HERE:

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install scipy
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  sudo easy_install scipy

or sudo easy_install3 scipy

You may need to install python-setuptools or python3-setuptools first.

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  • mh, but that only gets me what I have already: Searching for scipy Best match: scipy 0.7.0 Adding scipy 0.7.0 to easy-install.pth file
    – DrSAR
    Apr 15, 2011 at 5:06
  • and if I force an upgrade: (sudo easy_install -U --dry-run scipy) I get a ValueError since the numpy requirement (>=1.4) is not satisfied (currently 1.3.0)
    – DrSAR
    Apr 15, 2011 at 5:12
  • Sorry about that -- my system is happy with 0.9.0: Best match: scipy 0.9.0 Downloading ... md5=a37933c9e3c4fdf8d087624cd7dcb47d We seem to have different versions for dependencies....
    – belacqua
    Apr 15, 2011 at 15:22
  • So you're on 10.04 but have more recent versions of scipy (and likely some other packages as well)? How did you get there - probably not through apt-getting them, did you?
    – DrSAR
    Apr 15, 2011 at 18:10
  • I've built a few things from git/svn etc., unfortunately. I don't have a fresh install at the moment, but I'll see if I can reproduce when I get a chance.
    – belacqua
    Apr 15, 2011 at 18:18

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