[Starcluster] NumPy and SciPy tests fail on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

[Andrew Straw]

Justin Riley wrote:
> Hi Damian,
>
> Good to hear you fixed the issue. I will certainly need to add a note about 
> installing numpy/scipy/lapack/openmpi from ubuntu. These packages have been 
> custom compiled and installed (see 
> http://starcluster.scripts.mit.edu/~starcluster/wiki/index.php?title=StarCluster_AMI_Cookbook). 
> Openmpi happens to be recompiled into a deb package so it's easy to reinstall, 
> however, numpy/scipy/lapack require a bit more work if you clobber them with 
> apt-get. 
>   
Justin, you could use stdeb to custom install Python packages (e.g.
numpy/scipy) while letting dpkg know about it -- thus preventing
clobbering between dpkg and distutils. See
http://github.com/astraw/stdeb . Hopefully it's pretty straightforward
to use.

-Andrew