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

for me the error was slightly different.

Blas (http://www.netlib.org/blas/) libraries not found.

Directories to search for the libraries can be specified in the

numpy/distutils/site.cfg file (section [blas]) or by setting

the BLAS environment variable.

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Cleaning up...
Command /home/kdixit/pyvirt/bin/python -c "import setuptools;__file__='/home/kdixit/pyvirt/build/scipy/setup.py';exec(compile(open(__file__).read().replace('\r\n

Thus I had to install

sudo apt-get install libblas-dev

and then it worked.