[Numpy-discussion] .debs of numpy-0.9.8 available for Ubuntu Dapper (original) (raw)

Arnd Baecker arnd.baecker at web.de
Thu Jun 8 05:35:09 EDT 2006

Hi Andrew,

first thanks a lot for your effort - I am certain it will be very much appreciated!

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Andrew Straw wrote:

I've put together some .debs for numpy-0.9.8. There are binaries compiled for amd64 and i386 architectures of Ubuntu Dapper, and I suspect these will build from source for just about any Debian-based distro and architecture.

The URL is http://sefton.astraw.com/ubuntu/dapper and you would add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://sefton.astraw.com/ubuntu/ dapper/ deb-src http://sefton.astraw.com/ubuntu/ dapper/ Although this is the culmination of my first serious attempt Debianizing something, I've attempted to build these "properly" (using inspiration from Matthias Klose's Numeric and numarray packages for Debian and Ubuntu, although I've updated the build system to use CDBS). The numpy source has a build dependency on setuptools (0.6b2), which is also available at the repository. Numpy doesn't get installed as an .egg, but it carries along .egg-info, which means that numpy can be part of a setuptools dependency specification. This was done using the --single-version-externally-managed command for setuptools. I'm building this repository to serve some of my needs at work, and I hope to add recent versions of several other projects including matplotlib and scipy in the coming days. I hope to be able to keep the repository up-to-date over time and to respond to bug reports and questions, although the amount of time I have to devote to this sort of stuff is unfortunately often near zero.

Alright, let's start with the first question: We are still running debian sarge and therefore would have to build the above from source. I used the following steps:

and get:

dpkg-buildpackage: source package is python-numpy dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.9.8-0ads1 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Andrew Straw <strawman at astraw.com> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386 dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: cdbs (>= 0.4.23-1.1) build-essential python2.4-dev python-setuptools (>= 0.6b2) python2.3-setuptools (>= 0.6b2) python2.4-setuptools (>= 0.6b2) dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Build conflicts: atlas3-base dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting. dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.)

What worries me is a) the Build conflicts: atlas3-base b) and the python2.3-dev and python2.4-dev dependency Clearly, python-setuptools and cdbs are not yet installed on my system (should be no problem).

If I get some positive feedback, I'm likely to add this to the scipy.org download page. Also, I hope the official Debian and Ubuntu distros pick up numpy soon, and perhaps this will speed them along.

yes - that would be brilliant!

What about scipy: presently debian sarge comes with scipy 0.3.2. Installing old-scipy and new-scipy side-by side seems impossible (unless one does something like wxversion select stuff...) - should the new scipy debs just replace the old ones?

Best, Arnd

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