Collection of Errors and solutions of install QIIME in VMware + Ubuntu

[liu bin]

Recently, I installed QIIME in over 3 computers, and this article summarize experiences for all the ERRORS and solutions.

workflow:

1, install VMware;

2, install Ubuntu virtual machine;

3, follow Qiime installation homepage; 

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Error 1: 

"pip install fail: command "python setup.py egg-info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/...../matplotlib.

Solution: 

sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib

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Error 2:

"python postgresql-server-dev-X.Y"

Solution:

sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.1

sudo apt-get install python-psycopg2

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

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Error 3:

"SSLError: the read operation timeout"

Solution:

pip --default-timeout=100 install django

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Error 4:

"scipy error..."

Solution:

sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev build-essential libatlas-base-dev gfortran

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Hope these will help !

[Kyle Bittinger]

Thanks for posting!