Need help installing modules

[Michael McFarlane]

Hello,

I am running Spyder 2.2.0 on Windows 7. I would like to install the module iminuit but I do not know how to do so within Spyder and I cannot find the basic instructions.

I also tried installing it in my cygwin terminal. python setup.py install returned no errors, but then my cygwin python failed to find a library. I copied that error below. Is it a path issue? 

Thanks,

Mike

>>> from iminuit import Minuit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "iminuit/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from _libiminuit import *
ImportError: No module named _libiminuit

[Uwe Fechner]

Hello,

I would not use cygwin for Python or spyder on Windows.

On the website (https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/) is suggested to use either native Python
or Python(x,y) or WinPython or Anaconda.

I had good experiences using WinPython (http://winpython.sourceforge.net/).

After installing WinPython you can use easy_install to install any pure Python package from the
WinPython Command Prompt.

easy_install <package_name>

This might not work with iminuit, though, because it is not a pure python package.

My suggestion for using packages like iminuit, that do not exist in a version that was compiled
for windows is to leave windows (too many problems) and use Ubuntu in a virtual machine.

Compiling on Windows is difficult, on Linux very easy.

Best regards:

Uwe Fechner

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[Carlos Córdoba]

Hi,

After installing either PythonXY or Anaconda, please go to this page

http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#iminuit

download and run the installer for iminuit that you need according to your architecture, i.e. either

iminuit‑1.1.1.win‑amd64‑py2.7.exe

or

iminuit‑1.1.1.win32‑py2.7.exe

Cheers,
Carlos

El 29/03/14 11:01, Uwe Fechner escribió: