I am trying to install pandas for Python3.3 on Ubuntu 13.10

Question

I had installed Python2.7 and was trying to install numpy and pandas for the same. However when I saw Python3.3 was already there, I removed the 2.7 and related packages and installed numpy for python 3. But when I tried installing pandas I started getting this error

/var/lib/dpkg/info/python-setuptools.postinst: 6: /var/lib/dpkg/info/python setuptools.postinst: pycompile: not found
dpkg: error processing python-setuptools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 python-setuptools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried a bunch of things like

1. apt-get -f install
2. apt-get install -y python-central . Nothing seems to work out

Any help/suggestions would be very helpful. I am completely new to Python.

Answer 1

The problem is that the postinstallation script for python-setuptools can't find pycompile , which compiles Python source to bytecode. pycompile is part of the python-minimal package. You may want to try uninstalling all the Python packages you have currently then going step-by-step, installing:

1. python2.7 (which will install python-minimal , which contains pycompile )
2. python-setuptools (which uses pycompile )
3. python-pandas (which presumably uses python-setuptools )