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 16.04:

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

Answer 2

For Fedora 23

First check that you have the latest pip version:

pip install -U pip
pip install -U wheel

Then install the following pacakges:

dnf install zlib zlib-devel libstdc++-devel libstdc++ libstdc++-static llvm-3.7.0 llvm-devel-3.7.0 libedit libedit-devel
pip install enum34 funcsigs

Then download and unzip llvmlite from the GIT repository. Suppose that you are downloading to /usr/local/llvmlite then:

git clone <address-for-llvmlite.git> /usr/local/llvmlite
cd /usr/local/llvmlite

Build source as described here:

LLVM_CONFIG=/usr/bin/llvm-config python setupy.py build

Refresh terminal session and install built llvmlite

reset
LLVM_CONFIG=/usr/bin/llvm-config python setup.py install

Finally download and install numba by

pip install numba    

Answer 3

Ubuntu 15.10 using Python 3.4.3+

llvmlite version 0.9 or newer (I installed 0.10)

As stated in llvmlite's GitHub Page:

As of version 0.9, llvmlite requires LLVM 3.7. It does not support earlier or later versions of LLVM.

My solution, similar to the ones in other answers (but regarding python3):

To meet the dependencies: (like libedit and compression libraries)

sudo apt-get install zlib1g zlib1g-dev libedit2 libedit-dev
sudo pip3 install enum34 funcsigs

llvm-3.7 (Other answers included llvm package, which nowadays installs version 3.6, not working)

sudo apt-get install llvm-3.7 llvm-3.7-dev llvm-3.7-runtime llvm-3.7-tools

Trying to install llvmlite from pip:

sudo pip3 install llvmlite

(If it works, skip this) If it doesn't work, like in my case, build the last master branch from their repository:

git clone https://github.com/numba/llvmlite
cd llvmlite/
sudo ch -c "LLVM_CONFIG=/usr/bin/config-3.7 python3 setup.py build
sudo sh -c "LLVM_CONFIG=/usr/bin/llvm-config-3.7 python3 setup.py install"

Finally, install numba:

sudo pip3 install numba

Answer 4

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