Trouble installing scipy in virtualenv on a amazon ec2 linux micro instance

Question

I have successfully installed scipy in the default python compiler on an amazon ec2 micro instance (Ubuntu 13.04). However i am not able to install scipy<

Answer 1

This worked for me:

pip --no-cache-dir install scipy

See:

• Memory error while using pip install Matplotlib

  https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/9a23d4ed119327d3b823ec223aaead90964bac58/pip/basecommand.py#L56-L63

• https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/28cca11e284b37cc2c7977fd25be6f494adda9d3/src/pip/_internal/download.py#L359-L367

note:

• works for other service providers, hardware, VMs, and containers.
• if RAM allocation size of 1GB
• just calculate the diff between the cached directory memory usage and available ram