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I was trying to install ggplot using pip install ggplot. As it turned out, I was missing many essential packages, like stated in SciPy and blas and in SciPy with pip. After running sudo apt-get install build-essential gfortran libatlas-base-dev python-pip python-dev I didn't get these "Cannot build wheel" errors anymore, luckily.

Now as I am trying just pip install scipy (which I need apparently) it fetches the package informations and gets stuck at Running setup.py install for scipy ... /. I can't imagine it takes this long time to install a 12 MB package (I waited for 30 minutes). Pip won't list it, so it's not isntalled. Does it really take so long? Or do I have another problem here, now? What am I missing?

I am running python3.4 on Ubuntu 14.04.

EDIT: When trying pip install ggplot it gets stuck at the setup.py install for scipy too...

EDIT2: It seems installing the package scipy for python3 did the trick. It is just completely unclear, why I need so many different packages from different sources to just get it to run. Anyhoo, scipy works and ggplot as well.

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  • Doesn't directly answer your question, just want to make sure you know about [Anaconda](https://www.continuum.io/downloads) because it greatly simplifies this sort of thing. – Matt Hall Feb 19 '16 at 14:47
  • I know about Anaconda, but this just wasn't an option for this question. I use it for windows, because of its benefits, though. – Hüftl Feb 20 '16 at 15:16
  • sudo pip3 install ggplot (I'm on Ubuntu 15.04) – AAAfarmclub Jul 03 '16 at 23:39

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Scipy is compiling a lot of stuff. Depending on your computer it might take some time.

try: 

pip -v install scipy
pip -vv install scipy
pip -vvv install scipy

(more and more verbose logging output)

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  • Not exactly solving my problem, but the -v flag is pretty awesome. Didn't knew about that. Thanks! – Hüftl Feb 22 '16 at 17:17