Numpy installation?

I used VIRTUALBOX to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my windows pc. I used apt-get to install Python 2.7 that shipped with 12.04. I followed the directives I saw on this site to install Numpy, Scipy, Matplot all failed. I download tar source file of these modules. How do I install them manually? Someone pls help, I'm getting frustrated.

Solution 1:

Install them using the software center instead of trying to do it manually.

From the SciPy install page :

sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib ipython ipython-notebook python-pandas python-sympy python-nose

The versions in Ubuntu 12.10 and Debian 7.0 meet the current SciPy stack specification. Users might also want to add the NeuroDebian repository for extra SciPy packages.