Building NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, and IPython from source
As a last resort or if we want to have the latest code, we can build from source. In practice, it shouldn't be that hard, although depending on your operating system, you might run into problems. As operating systems and related software are rapidly evolving, in such cases, the best you can do is search online or ask for help. In this chapter, we give pointers on good places to look for help.
The source code can be retrieved with git or as an archive from GitHub. The steps to install NumPy from source are straightforward and given here. We can retrieve the source code for NumPy with git as follows:
$ git clone git://github.com/numpy/numpy.git numpy
Note
There are similar commands for SciPy, ...
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