[pymvpa] pymvpa installation problem... nifti not found

[tbeck at artsci.wustl.edu]

Yaroslav

Thanks much for your fast helpful feedback. the debian virtual machine
works well.  it runs a bit slow on my machine, but should work for the
time being.  Thanks again for the helpful feedback to a newbie.

have a great weekend everybody,
Taylor


> On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, tbeck at artsci.wustl.edu wrote:
>> python -c 'import nifti' gave me the same error:
>> Import Error: No module named nifti
>
> so, there is no nifti for this version/flavor of python you are using by
> default ;)
>
>> can you tell from this output what may have
>> gone wrong?
> I bet it is exactly what I feared:
>
>  P.S. Common problem on OSX is the hell of mixes of different pythons
>  and corresponding modules installed via variety of methods (local,
>  macports, etc) since there is no uniform one "out of the box"
>  installation mechanism, i.e. like on Debian ;-)  thus for the best
>  experience we just advice users to use
>  http://neuro.debian.net/vm.html.
>
>> When I ran print mvpa.wtf(), I noticed a bunch of the externals don't
>> seem
>> to have installed properly (see below).  Is there a command to install
>> these individually manually?
>
> get sources and follow each package installation instructions, which
> most of the time something like
>
> python setup.py install
>
>
> or once again -- forget about all this mess and use virtual machine with
> Debian and enjoy the paradise ;-)
>
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