[SciPy-User] Completing source install of numpy/scipy

[Pauli Virtanen]

Mon, 02 May 2011 10:10:08 +0000, Pauli Virtanen wrote:

> Mon, 02 May 2011 18:33:52 +0900, David wrote: [clip]
>>> How might I go about convincing Linux that the packages are installed?
>> 
>> This is impossible.
> 
> Not really -- you can use the `equivs` tool to create dummy Debian
> packages that fake real packages,
> 
> http://blog.andrewbeacock.com/2005/09/creating-dummy-debian-package-for.html
> 
> It's fiddly, though, so don't do it if you do not exactly understand
> what you are doing. (And as it's off-topic for this list, debian or
> ubuntu lists would be a better place to ask...)

And also, it's the wrong thing to do. Your local installation of Numpy
will override the system one (at least if you installed it via setupegg.py)