[SciPy-User] Problem with self-built numpy 1.4.1 on kubuntu lucid

[Yosef Meller]

On יום רביעי 21 יולי 2010 15:29:33 Scott Sinclair wrote:
> >On 21 July 2010 14:02, Yosef Meller <yosefmel at post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> > I'm trying to build numpy 1.4.1 on an Ubuntu Lucid system. I've done this
> > recently on a similar system and it went fine. But here, the build
> > finishes fine, but the tests give me errors (see below).
> > 
[snip]
> 
> NumPy 1.4.1 shouldn't have 'numpy/core/tests/test_datetime.py'. It
> looks like you have some files left over from an old installation
> (maybe 1.4.0?).
> 
> Make sure that 1) you remove the build sub-directory from wherever
> you've unpacked the source code before building again and 2) you
> completely remove the contents of
> /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy before installing.

Yup, turns out I had another numpy installed in /usr/local.

Thanks for the tip,
Yosef.