Installation of NumPy^? and SciPy^? on CentOS systems

Issues

• numpy and scipy are required by several systems, such as shape from Imod and leginon
• Redhat / CentOS^? does not have scipy in it's main repository
• in additon, blas and lapack are required, and the official versions have bugs which make them unusable

Installation instructions

• best instructions are at the site http://www.scipy.org/Installing_SciPy/Linux
• In brief
  • uninstall any existing blas, lapack, numpy using yum
  • install the repo file http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ashigabou/CentOS_5/home:ashigabou.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d directory

sudo cp /cem03data/rice/home:ashigabou.repo yum.repos.d/ashigabou.repo

• • install lapack2-devel:

sudo yum install lapack3-devel

• • install numpy and scipy:

sudo yum install python-numpy --nogpgcheck
sudo yum install python-scipy --nogpgcheck

• • • --nogpgcheck is needed as packages are not properly signed.

• • install numpy: sudo yum install num

• Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW =

-- BillRice - 22 Jun 2009