Building from source
We can retrieve the source code for NumPy with git as follows:
$ git clone git://github.com/numpy/numpy.git numpy
Alternatively, download the source from http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/.
Install in /usr/local with the following command:
$ python setup.py build $ [sudo] python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local
To build, we need a C compiler such as GCC and the Python header files in the python-dev or python-devel packages.
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