[Tutor] cvxopt install problem

[Alan Gauld]

On 04/11/15 17:43, Ek Esawi wrote:

Caveat: This list is for help with the Python language and
standard library so any third party modules like cvxopt will
depend on whether anybody here has experience or not. Usually
you will get better results asking on the library's support forum.

Having said that here are a few observations...

> Here is the suggestion from the posting
 >[If you are using Windows, an easy solution
> could be the Anaconda distribution (http://continuum.io/downloads).
>
> Select and install the 32 bit version. It will be easier to install the cvxopt
> package. Search it in the binstar repository (https://binstar.org/search?q=cvxopt).

I'm assuming you did this bit and it worked?

> Open a console terminal and install
>
> it (e. g. "conda install -chttps://conda.binstar.org/omnia cvxopt").?]

Note this is a console window, in other words a Windows CMD prompt,
not a Python prompt

> I did everything except the last command to install cvxopt, that’s
> “conda install
> -chttps://conda.binstar.org/omnia cvxopt".
>
> Here is the command I used:
>
> conda install c:/Users/eesawi0001/Downloads/cvxopt-1.1.7-py34.tar

Why did you change it?
The given command uses a URL.
Your version uses a local file path.

> I kept getting invalid syntax

That suggests you are maybe using a Python prompt(>>>) rather than
the CMD prompt?


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