Hello all. I stumbled upon this site trying to get help. I'm a total newb to using Unix and I'm real eager and excited to learn it. So I'm in a computing class and to do the homework I need to install some software: scipy, numpy, python, ipython, matplotlib/pylab, mercurial, gfortran, openMP, open MPI, LApack, and Sphinx. A ton of stuff. So I'm totally new to all of this and I guess all of the installation instructions are geared more to those with Linux.
So for now I just need to worry about python, ipython, numpy, scipy, gfortran, and matplotlib/pylab(are these the same or different things?). So I know Mac os comes with pythong 2.6, so I skipped that and I was able to find an installer for fortran. Then I started trying to download each of the remaining deals using the command
sudo easy_install PACKAGE
and for package went down the list of: IPython[kernel,security],numpy,
scipy, and matplotlib.
So when I did this all sorts of crazy went through the command window and
I had no clue what it meant. So I went into ipython( which I really
have no idea what is the difference between python and ipython. Are
they the same thing or two different programs?) and I tried to import
numpy, scipy,matplotlib and pylab and this is what I get:
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Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
IPython 0.10.1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help -> Python's own help system.
object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.
In [1]: import numpy
In [2]: import matplotlib
/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib-0.91.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/pytz/tzinfo.py:5: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
from sets import Set
In [3]: import scipy
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
/Users/jonathanthompson/<ipython console> in <module>()
ImportError: No module named scipy
In [4]: import pylab
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
/Users/jonathanthompson/<ipython console> in <module>()
/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib-0.91.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/pylab.py in <module>()
----> 1 from matplotlib.pylab import *
2 import matplotlib.pylab
3 __doc__ = matplotlib.pylab.__doc__
/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib-0.91.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/matplotlib/pylab.py in <module>()
204 # replace the present numpy.ma implementation in a future
205 # numpy release.
--> 206 from matplotlib.numerix import npyma as ma
207
208 from matplotlib import mpl # pulls in most modules
/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib-0.91.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/matplotlib/numerix/__init__.py in <module>()
164 g = globals()
165 l = locals()
--> 166 __import__('ma', g, l)
167 __import__('fft', g, l)
168 __import__('linear_algebra', g, l)
/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/matplotlib-0.91.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/matplotlib/numerix/ma/__init__.py in <module>()
14 print "using maskedarray"
15 else:
---> 16 from numpy.core.ma import *
17 #print "using ma"
18 def getmaskorNone(obj):
ImportError: No module named ma
In [5]:
So I have no clue what all that means. I really could use some help.
I just started using Unix like a week ago really, so I feel TOTALLY
overwhelmed. I would REALLY appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks
so much!!