Difficulties in installation of pysparse and superlu
<p>I want to run a python2.7 program (<a href="https://github.com/williamhunter/topy" rel="nofollow">this one</a>). I'm having a lot of trouble (I spend my whole aftenoon on this), because of the installation of the python 2.7 dependencies.</p>

<p><strong>Config</strong></p>

<p>I am running an Ubuntu 16.04 64bits ([Mint XFCE 18), based on Debian. My computer is a Dell Inspiron N5110 from 2011, with dual boot W7/U16. The keyboard-to-screen interface is really new in this world and perhaps need to learn a lot more about it to solve this alone.</p>

<p><strong>Proceeds</strong></p>

<p>I started by installing various programs with apt:</p>

<p><code>sudo apt-get install -y git python-dev libpython-dev libevent-dev libsuperlu-dev libblas-dev liblapack-dev</code></p>

<p>After <em>git cloning</em> the program I wanted, I installed the dependencies. I don't know why, but <code>sudo pip install pysparse</code> didn't worked. Instead, <code>sudo pip install csc-pysparse</code> worked fine.</p>

<p><strong>Issue</strong></p>

<p>When I run my program, it tells me <code>from pysparse import superlu, itsolvers, precon</code> and then <code>ImportError: cannot import name superlu</code>.</p>

<p>Why ? Isn't the pip resolving the dependencies problems it could have and install superlu ? Do I need to install superlu manually or to install the pysparse instead of csc-pysparse ?</p>

<p>(and please be indulgent, It's my really first post on stackoverflow, as <a href="https://github.com/williamhunter/topy/issues/9" rel="nofollow" title="github issue">thoses</a> were my really firsts posts on github)</p>

<p>I did get an <a href="https://github.com/williamhunter/topy/issues/9" rel="nofollow">answer</a>, thanks to <a href="https://github.com/williamhunter" rel="nofollow" title="William Hunter&#39;s profile on Github">William Hunter</a>.</p>

<p>The procedure to install it is the following :</p>

<pre><code>sudo apt-get install -y python-dev python-tk libpython-dev libevent-dev libsuperlu-dev libblas-dev liblapack-dev libatlas3-base libatlas-dev
sudo pip install matplotlib setuptools SymPy pysparse pyvtk
</code></pre>

python python-2.7 pip python-module finite-element-analysis