Nupic Installation Ubuntu 13.04

Question

I am having a heck of a time installing NUPIC on ubuntu-13.04-desktop-amd64.iso [within Exsi 5.1].

I've followed the instructions on https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Install-Nupic-on-ubuntu-13.04. The install fails at:

pip install -r external/common/requirements.txt

with the following error:

error: could not create '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/asteval': Permission denied

It works if I use sudo pip install... but just fails on

$NUPIC/build.sh

I also had to add

sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install python-numpy

to even get it to the "pip install..." point.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Neil

Answer 1

Thank you for the report. I've created a ticket to address this installation issue.

Neilg, please try these instructions: https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Installing-NuPIC-on-Ubuntu

Answer 2

I had the same problem trying to install nupic.

I was following these instructions: https://github.com/numenta/nupic/wiki/Running-Nupic-in-a-Virtual-Machine

The problem you may be facing is that your user does not have read/write access to the /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/asteval folder. You can use the chown command to change that folders ownership to the user you want and give that user read/write access.

With regards to the above instructions, I installed using sudo but failed to realize that the environment variables for root were different than the environment variables for the user I created to install nupic.

Hope this helps,

VS

Answer 3

The problem you may be facing is that your user does not have read/write access to the /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/asteval folder. You can use the chown command to change that folders ownership to the user you want and give that user read/write access.

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