Build Software

Installing Python Modules

Install Numpy with pip

$ pip3 install --user numpy

Collecting numpy
  Downloading numpy-1.11.0.tar.gz (4.2MB)
4.2MB 135kB/s Installing collected packages: numpy
  Running setup.py install for numpy

Successfully installed numpy

Install Matplotlib using setup.py

Matplotlib github release page

Unpack the tarball _~ {.bash} $ tar xzvf matplotlib-1.5.1.tar.gz $ cd matplotlib $ ls {.output} CHANGELOG Makefile doc matplotlibrc.template src unit CONTRIBUTING.md README.osx examples release test_only.py versioneer.py INSTALL README.rst extern setup.cfg.template tests.py LICENSE boilerplate.py lib setup.py tools MANIFEST.in distribute_setup.py license.py setupext.py
tox.ini _~

Build the package

$ module load python3
$ python3 setup.py build

setup.py build output

Install the package

$ python3 setup.py install --user

setup.py install output

Try running the python script

$ ./random-sample.py

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./random-sample.py", line 4, in <module>
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
ImportError: No module named matplotlib.pyplot

But you already installed matplotlib? Need to check which python interpreter the script is calling

$ nano random-sample.py

Change the first line to ‘#!/usr/bin python3’.

$ ./random-sample.py

random-sample.py output figure