Install pip and virtualenv for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick and newer
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential
$ sudo pip install --upgrade pip
$ sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenv
Scipy package
Installing via pip
Mac and Linux users can install pre-built binary packages for the SciPy stack using pip. Pip can install pre-built binary packages in the wheel package format.
Note that you need to have Python and pip already installed on your system.
pip does not work well for Windows because the standard pip package index site, PyPI, does not yet have Windows wheels for some packages, such as SciPy.
To install via pip on Mac or Linux, first upgrade pip to the latest version:
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
Then install the SciPy stack packages with pip. We recommend a user install, using the --user flag to pip (note: don’t use sudo pip, that will give problems). This installs packages for your local user, and does not need extra permissions to write to the system directories:
pip install --user numpy scipy matplotlib ipython jupyter pandas sympy nose
For user installs, make sure your user install executable directory is on your PATH. Here are example commands for setting the user PATH:
Linux:
# Consider adding this at the end of your ~/.bashrc file
export PATH="$PATH:/home/your_user/.local/bin"
