[pymvpa] SMLR shared library not found

[Thorsten Kranz]

Yarik was faster ;-)

2011/3/24 Thorsten Kranz <thorstenkranz at googlemail.com>:
> Hi amit,
>
> you are in the source-directory of pymvpa. Within this is a directory 'mvpa'.
>
> If you open ipython or python and type
>
> import mvpa
>
> or
>
> from mvpa.suite import *
>
> then python takes the mvpa-subdirectory as the place from where is
> imports the mvpa-package. This won't work, at least for SVM / SMLR,
> that use C-code bindings that have to be compiled.
>
> But don't waste your time compiling and trying to install all this.
>
> Just go to another directory! do:
>
> cd /home/amid
> ipython
> from mvpa.suite import *
>
> and everything should work.
>
> Greetings,
> Thorsten
>
>
> 2011/3/24 amit patel <damitamit82 at hotmail.co.uk>:
>> Hello, i have
>>
>> amit at amit-MS-7346:~/pymvpa-0.6.0~rc2$
>>
>> and everything is up to date, I still get the same error when i type from
>> mvpa.suite import*, so i need to build libsvm somehow? so i tried python
>> setup.py install --with -libsvm, sudo apt-get install libsvm and make 3rd,
>> none of these work and come back with errors. It says it cannot find libsvm,
>> so do i have to tell it where it is?
>>
>> thanks again
>>
>> Amit
>>
>>>>> from mvpa.suite import*
>> WARNING: Failed to load fast implementation of SMLR.  May be you forgotten
>> to build it.  We will use much slower pure-Python version. Original
>> exception was /home/amit/pymvpa-0.6.0~rc2/mvpa/clfs/libsmlrc/smlrc.pyd:
>> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>  * Please note: warnings are printed only once, but underlying problem might
>> occur many times *
>> WARNING: SMLR: C implementation is not available. Using pure Python one
>> /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/numerix/__init__.py:18:
>> DeprecationWarning:
>> **********************************************************
>> matplotlib.numerix and all its subpackages are deprecated.
>> They will be removed soon.  Please use numpy instead.
>> **********************************************************
>>
>>   warnings.warn(msg, DeprecationWarning)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:02:19 -0400
>>> From: michael.hanke at gmail.com
>>> To: pkg-exppsy-pymvpa at lists.alioth.debian.org
>>> Subject: Re: [pymvpa] SMLR shared library not found
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:48:33PM +0000, amit patel wrote:
>>> > To Thorsten and Michael thanks for reply but i thought i needed to
>>> > manually install swig to help me install libsvm as the error still
>>> > persists below when i do from mvpa.suite import*. I have installed
>>> > latest version by using snapshot command when i run it everything is
>>> > up to date it says, even though it still says pymvpa-0.6.0~rc1 from
>>> > mvpa.wtf and i don't have libsvm built or installed which i need, so i
>>> > tried to do it manually. I still have no success though.
>>>
>>> The reason is this:
>>>
>>> > Version: 0.6.0~rc1
>>> > Hash: feda3f526efd71a5ae34f0c1fd3d8f2334d5f412
>>> > Path: mvpa/__init__.py
>>>
>>> You are running your python session in the extracted source tree of a
>>> 0.6.0~rc1
>>> tarball. Simply change into another directory and things will work.
>>>
>>> If you are running the system-wide PyMVPA, it would look like this
>>> (except for the exact hash value):
>>>
>>> Version: 0.6.0.dev
>>> Hash: a2935c1d46080d2052b08c170b71c3f794911921
>>> Path: /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/mvpa/__init__.pyc
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michael Hanke
>>> http://mih.voxindeserto.de
>>>
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