Installing SciPy with pip

python installation scipy pip
Olivier Verdier picture Olivier Verdier · Feb 6, 2010 · Viewed 354.9k times · Source

It is possible to install NumPy with pip using pip install numpy.

Is there a similar possibility with SciPy? (Doing pip install scipy does not work.)

Update

The package SciPy is now available to be installed with pip!

Answer

Abhishek Gupta picture Abhishek Gupta · Mar 12, 2013

Prerequisite:

sudo apt-get install build-essential gfortran libatlas-base-dev python-pip python-dev
sudo pip install --upgrade pip

Actual packages:

sudo pip install numpy
sudo pip install scipy

Optional packages:

sudo pip install matplotlib   OR  sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib
sudo pip install -U scikit-learn
sudo pip install pandas

src

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