[pymvpa] Trouble running pyMVPA on Mac OS 10.6.6

[John Magnotti]

Hi Thad,


> The output from mvpa2.wtf() below indicates that I'm missing a number of
> externals, including nibabel.  More thoughts?
because you installed PyMVPA from source, the dependencies weren't
automatically installed. Assuming the relevant versions of nibabel and
other externals are available in MacPorts, you should be able to `sudo
port install $package` for the dependencies you want.

On a side note--I fought with PyMVPA on Mac OS for a while before
deciding it was just easier to run it in a VM (I have used Linux for
several years, but it is fairly easy for anyone to pickup these days I
think). The only downside of the VM for me is I don't get access to
all my RAM. I'm running the latest Ubuntu in Parallels and everything
I need is just an apt-get install away, and dependencies are taken
care of automatically.

Hope that helps,

John