[IPython-dev] IPython build environment on Ubuntu 10.04
Mark Voorhies
mark.voorhies at ucsf.edu
Wed Sep 21 13:15:28 EDT 2011
On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 09:01:01 pm you wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 18:42, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Mark Voorhies <mark.voorhies at ucsf.edu>
> > wrote:
> > > Just finished submitting a manuscript and have some time to do a bit of
> > IPython hacking.
> > > It looks like my installed dependencies are sufficiently out of date that
> > I should rebuild
> > > my environment (Cython/ZMQ/PyZMQ/IPython) from scratch.
> >
> > Unless you plan to hack on pyzmq itself, you don't need cython to just
> > install pyzmq.
> >
>
> It's true - the only dev version of anything we currently depend on is
> tornado (for the notebooks only), since browsers have made websocket
> protocol changes in the their most recent versions, that are not compatible
> with the tornado 2.0-release.
>
> And pyzmq is easy_installable *iff* libzmq is in a default place like
> /usr/local. Otherwise, you have to run the configure step first, to tell it
> where libzmq is.
>
> However, if you do feel like tracking Cython, PyZMQ, IPython, and Tornado,
> your wish is my command:
> https://gist.github.com/1231171
>
> I just created a brand new Ubuntu 11.04 VM, with no bashrc or anything, and
> ran:
>
> $> sudo apt-get install git uuid-dev python-dev python-qt4 python-pygments #
> the last two are only for the qtconsole
> $> export PATH=$HOME/.local:$PATH # add this, and optionally the matching
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to your .bashrc
> $> wget https://raw.github.com/gist/1231171/ipdev.sh
> $> bash ipdev.sh
>
> And I have the IPython cluster, notebook server, qtconsole, etc. all ready
> to run (and git repos for Cython, PyZMQ, IPython, and Tornado in a new
> `code` directory).
>
Wow!
For the record, Min's script works out of the box on Ubuntu 10.04.
Thanks, Min and Fernando.
--Mark
> If you don't want to keep the repos around, it's actually even easier, as
> you can always install the current git snapshot of projects on github with:
>
> $> easy_install --user https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tarball/master
>
>
> > > Does anyone have advice for doing a non-system install of these pieces
> > > (e.g., to $HOME/ipython/) on Ubuntu 10.04, preferably from their VCS
> > versions?
> >
> > My standard procesure is just to install things in $HOME/usr/local via
> >
> > python setup.py --prefix=$HOME/usr/local
> >
> > or
> >
> > ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr/local && make && make install
> >
>
> > I have $PATH, $PYTHONPATH, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and other such variables
> > configured for this to work out of the box. If you need a hand with
> > this I'm happy to send over my bash utils that take care of it.
> >
>
> I do a similar thing, but just use '--user' for Python installs, which go to
> ~/.local, which I symlink to ~/usr/local, using the two paths
> interchangeably. This way, only PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are needed, as
> Python (>= 2.6) already searches that location by default. in fact, even
> LD_LIB.. is often not needed, as rpaths are coded into dylibs, so pyzmq will
> still work, even without setting the LD_LIB path, but I set it anyway.
>
> -MinRK
>
>
>
> >
> > I'd recommend you go with released versions of zmq/pyzmq, as there's
> > no need to use the bleeding edge of those. If you're interested in
> > the web notebook you'll need tornado from git, that's currently our
> > only non-released dependency.
> >
> > Looking forward to having you contribute again! Please let us know if
> > you get stuck on anything.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > f
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