E: Package 'Python-Scipy' Has No Installation Candidate
Upon Installing a Software, I Am Finding the Following Error Multiple Times. $ Sudo Python Setup. Py Install Traceback (Most Recent Call Last): File "Setup...
Upon installing a software, I am finding the following error multiple times.
$ sudo python setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 24, in <module>
from software_name import PACKAGE_NAME
File "/home/username/Softwares/software_name/__init__.py", line 29, in <module>
import scipy
ImportError: No module named scipy
I can install many of the missing modules with, e.g., sudo apt-get install -y python-numpy, but sometimes I get:
username@username:~/Softwares/software_name$ sudo apt-get install -y python-scipy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package python-scipy is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'python-scipy' has no installation candidate
And I am really not sure what is going on?
1 Answer
The package you want is python3-scipy, not python-scipy. It can be installed using:
apt install python3-scipy
You might be better off installing scipy via pip (for Python 2) or pip3 (for Python 3). pip is a package manager for Python packages.
pip install scipy
or
pip3 install scipy
If you run into a similar problem in the future, you can use pip3 search scipy with the relevant search term to look for the required package. Check out man pip3 for the details.
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