How to fucking install matplotlib, scipy, numpy, scikit learn and ipython notebook on Mountain Lion

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How to install matplotlib, scipy, numpy, scikit learn and ipython notebook on Mountain Lion

By Austin G. Davis-Richardson

Get Homebrew and Pythonbrew

(Use their installation instructions)

• http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
• https://github.com/utahta/pythonbrew

Install gfortran, libpng

brew install gfortran
brew install libpng

Install Python 2.7

pythonbrew install 2.7
pythonbrew use 2.7

Clone matplotlib, scipy, numpy, sklearn and ipythonotebook from fucking master

(I'm downloading master.zip because some of the repos are quite huge)

curl -L https://github.com/numpy/numpy/archive/master.zip > numpy.zip
curl -L https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/archive/master.zip > matplotlib.zip
curl -L https://github.com/scipy/scipy/archive/master.zip > scipy.zip
curl -L https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/archive/master.zip > sklearn.zip

Unzip and install

cd into each directory and python setup.py install

Install tornado and pyzmq

(IPython needs this for the Notebook)

pip install tornado
pip install pyzmq

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That should work. Let me know if I forgot something.

Addendum:

If you're into Pandas, pip install works just fine.

Thanks! I have been putting this off. Did not install the iPython notebook yet.

Thanks! Also, SciPy depends on SWIG:

 brew install swig

Another issue that the one can face is unsupported X11 in Mountain Lion - so, guys, don't forget to install XQuartz before installing matplotlib ;}
Cheers!

Also, make the following symlink in order to matplotlib see free type
ln -s /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ /usr/include/freetype

Thanks, this is fantastic!

Scipy will fail without Cython. Do an easy_install cython before installing Scipy.

Nice. This is such a pain, thanks for posting with the appropriate expletives!

I was in need of freetype for matplotlib. Thanks for the post!

brew install freetype