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Yoshiserry

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Registered: 2014-02-19

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installing pandas python library version 13.0 on crunchbang 11 debian

I'm new to linux but I've tried every method I can think of to install the latest version of the pandas library for data analysis to work with the python programming language.

I use crunchbang 11 the debian one waldolf.

Ive tried sudo apt-get install pandas 13.0

no matter what I do download from website or through some repo it always installs version 08 on my machine.

Please help by providing me with step by step instructions, I.e. go to, downlod X open terminal type y.

damo

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From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 4,440

Re: installing pandas python library version 13.0 on crunchbang 11 debian

That apt-get command won't work because
a) You have spaces in the name
2) It isn't the name of what you want to install

To find out what you want to apt-get then on my system you get

[damo@cb-desktop ~]$ apt-cache search pandas
python-pandas - data structures for "relational" or "labeled" data
python-pandas-lib - low-level implementations and bindings for pandas
python3-pandas - data structures for "relational" or "labeled" data - Python 3
python3-pandas-lib - low-level implementations and bindings for pandas - Python 3

To find the version (this is for jessie)

[damo@cb-desktop ~]$ apt-cache policy python-pandas
python-pandas:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.12.0-2
  Version table:
     0.12.0-2 0
        500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages

So you either need to find which repo has v0.13 (Version 0.13 is in sid(unstable) ) or compile it from source, which you can get here (If you look at the README in the tar.gz source archive it seems to me that you would need to do quite a lot of work. )

There are ways of installing from newer sources, but that is fraught with danger if you don't know what you are doing! Easiest way may be to upgrade your system to use Unstable. Do you actually NEED the latest release?

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Yoshiserry

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Registered: 2014-02-19

Posts: 20

Re: installing pandas python library version 13.0 on crunchbang 11 debian

Hi Yes, definitely need latest release  but linux noob, (using it for speed of bootup and overall stability, programming in python ipython notebook. Testing code written by a friend in that version.

1. Can you tell me how to add another repo and which one to add that has thirteen?

2. or show me where and how to search for other repos (and how to see if those repos have what I want)

3. When I look at the pandas website it has 13 - does downloading it from pandas website mean compiling from source? Sorry Noob Question!

Better yet can you tell me how to upgrade to unstable and what steps to go through to install pandas 13.0? (latest version). Above 3 may no longer apply. Not sure.

Thanks Heaps.

damo

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From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 4,440

Re: installing pandas python library version 13.0 on crunchbang 11 debian

I think you need to read replies a bit more carefully

So you either need to find which repo has v0.13 (Version 0.13 is in sid(unstable) ) or compile it from source, which you can get here (If you look at the README in the tar.gz source archive it seems to me that you would need to do quite a lot of work. )

Please search the forums for how to use other sources and upgrade your system. Basically it involves changing your apt sources and doing a dist-upgrade, which is obviously a major thing to do. You can create a new sources.list using this online utility here.
There is a way of getting specific applications from newer sources which involves apt pinning and apt preferences ( - there is a HowTo on apt-pinning)

Read some tutorials about how to compile applications. You will also need to have the relevant tools installed on your system: an easy way to get what is needed is to run the cb-welcome script again and skip to the section about installing development tools.

I doubt you will get a step-by-step here because someone would have to invest a lot of time for you, because you are trying to run before you can crawl imo.

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Re: installing pandas python library version 13.0 on crunchbang 11 debian

@Yoshiserry:
There is a nice, step-by-step, how-to-install on python-pandas web page. How come you didn't find it yourself?

If you do not understand it, then see the last part of damo's answer, and get some time to comprehend what is going on in both Linux and python, and then install it by yourself.

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