[Tutor] dependencies

[Peter Otten]

Jim Mooney wrote:

> I downloaded scipy for 3.3, installed numpy first, ran setup.py, but
> now I get this error:  Blas (http://www.netlib.org/blas/) libraries
> not found.
> 
> Okay, I went to the scipy site, but it doesn't say a thing about this
> dependency. Am I missing something? Shouldn't these packages tell you
> what all the dependencies are so you don't just flail around? Or are
> they somewhere I'm not looking?
> 
> I'm looking at the scipy page:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/scipy/0.12.0 and don't see a thing about
> Blas.
> 
> Is there something obvious I'm supposed to know that I've missed,
> regarding installs? 

I found

http://www.scipy.org/scipylib/building/index.html

> At my level they seem to be a confusing mess.

So far my impression was that mere mortals like us are well catered with

http://www.scipy.org/install.html