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Bayesian Modeling and Probabilistic Programming in Python
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easy_install fails on Ubuntu 10.04, python2.6-dev required but not checked #39

Closed paulkoerbitz closed 13 years ago

paulkoerbitz commented 13 years ago

Hello,

when trying to install pymc on Ubuntu 10.04 today I ran into some trouble. I will attach the error message in a moment (it's quite long).

The issue was that I needed the python2.6-dev package, after that everything ran fine. Maybe there is a way to include this in the requirements for pymc, if not then I think it should be mentioned in the installation notes for ubuntu (I see that it says that it needs python 2.6, but I needed 30 minutes to figure out that it meant that I need to install python2.6-dev).

Thanks for all the great work! Paul

paulkoerbitz commented 13 years ago

/home/paul/.virtualenvs/np/bin/pip run on Tue May 10 11:51:38 2011 Downloading/unpacking pymc Getting page http://pypi.python.org/simple/pymc URLs to search for versions for pymc:

paulkoerbitz commented 13 years ago

Just wanted to add that I installed pymc in a 'virtualenv' using pip, but that was not what caused the problem. using sudo easy_install caused the same problem. Installing python2.6-dev fixed it.

fonnesbeck commented 13 years ago

I have added a note to the new docs on the docrev branch.