ImportError：没有名为numpy.distutils.core的模块（Ubuntu xgboost安装）

Question

I recently downloaded Ubuntu 14.04 desktop version alongside Windows 10.

My PC configs are: 4 GB RAM, 64 bit

I installed Anaconda after downloading the file using: bash Anaconda3-2.5.0-Linux-x86_64.sh

Installation was successful.

Now in my ubuntu terminal, I follwed steps as instructed on http://xgboost.readthedocs.org/en/latest/build.html#building-on-ubuntu-debian

1. Installed a recent GNU C++ compiler -->successful
2. git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost cd xgboost; make -j4

Building was also successful and I could build 'libxgboost.so'

3. sudo apt-get install python-setuptools (Successful)
4. cd python-package
5. sudo python setup.py install

The 5. command returns an error after a lot of lines:

'ImportError: No module named numpy.distutils.core'

Can anyone suggest how to get rid of this error so that I can install xgboost ?

Answer 1

I had the same problem today. I believe the issue is the instructions you listed are out of date for Python installs, as they are now enabled with pip install .

Delete the xgboost directory that your above install attempt created, and then execute:

pip install xgboost

It should all work with one command. See also the Python Specific XGBoost Install Instructions .

Answer 2

This issue is listed in xgboost's github

The solution is

sudo -s

python setup.py install

instead of

cd python-package; sudo python setup.py install