[yt-users] Yt not installing right

[rsoares]

That's great if you can spare time!

Matthew Turk wrote:
> Actually, now that I think about it, I have a 32-bit ubuntu machine at
> home, and I can build up a "frozen" directory with precompiled
> packages and whatnot.  I will do that when I get home tonight and put
> it up on the website.  If you end up with a working install, that
> would probably work out better, but maybe it could be of use to other
> people as well!
>
> -Matt
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Oh!  I understand.  I apologize.  Yes, yt-1.5 (which has not
>> officially been released yet, but I am very pleased you are running on
>> trunk! :) will download and install python2.6 rather than 2.5.
>> Python2.6 has some memory management improvements.  However, yt does
>> *not* use anything specific to python2.6 -- you should be just fine
>> running on python2.5.  So I would say that if you have numpy and
>> matplotlib installed for python2.5 just go ahead and install the yt
>> subversion trunk:
>>
>> $ python2.5 setup.py install
>>
>> and it should install just fine.  As I recall, you previously had a
>> working yt install -- you should be able to install the new version
>> *over* that old version (which is done by using the same python
>> executable as before and calling 'install'), and it should work just
>> peachy.  But if that's not the case, let me know?  The install_script
>> tries very hard to install an isolated environment; if you install
>> globally, your files may be in /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/
>> or /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages .  I wouldn't worry about that for
>> now, though, and instead maybe just give a shot at installing over it?
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:08 PM, rsoares <dlleuz at xmission.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> But what do I do with it?  Will it port into the yt-1.5, which is based on
>>> python 2.6.  How do I do that.
>>>
>>>
>>> Matthew Turk wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Okay, cool.  :)  Happy simulating & analyzing!
>>>>
>>>> -Matt
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:00 PM, rsoares <dlleuz at xmission.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> It is gfortran.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also I've tried installing numpy-1.2.1 myself since I notice my version
>>>>> of
>>>>> python is 2.5 and attached the (succesful ?) install log from that.  The
>>>>> old
>>>>> yt used python 2.5 but the new one is 2.6.  I had to install python-dev
>>>>> however to get my numpy to install.
>>>>>
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