Getting python Numba working on Ubuntu 14.10 or Fedora 21 with python 2.7

Question

Recently, I have had a frustrating time to get python Numba working on Ubuntu or Fedora Linux. The main problem has been with the compilation of llvmlite. What do I need to

Answer 1

For ubuntu 15.10

fisrt check that pip has the correct version:

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade wheel

pip >= 8.1

$ pip --version
pip 8.1.1 from
$ wheel version
wheel 0.29.0

apt-get install llvm stuff:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g zlib1g-dev libedit2 libedit-dev
sudo apt-get install llvm-3.7 llvm-3.7-dev llvm-dev

and then with pip (warning llvmlite work only with llvm 3.7):

pip install enum34 funcsigs
LLVM_CONFIG=/usr/bin/llvm-config-3.7 pip install llvmlite
LLVM_CONFIG=/usr/bin/llvm-config-3.7 pip install numba