Installing ta-lib c library on Ubuntu

[psmuts]

Hi,

I can't seem to get this to work. I am a noob for sure. I have an ssh connection into my virtual machine and when I run sudo apt-get install http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ta-lib/ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz I get

'unable to locate package.' Sorry for such a newbie question but going crazy here.

Thanks,

Peter

[mrjbq7]

I didn't think apt-get could install packages like that.

If its not available in your repositories (e.g., sudo apt-get install ta-lib or sudo apt-get install ta-lib-dev), then I would suggest the old fashioned way:

$ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ta-lib/ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
$ cd ta-lib-0.4.0
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

That puts it into /usr/local I think, if you'd prefer /usr then do ./configure --prefix=/usr.

That help?

[psmuts]

Worked. Thank you very much.

[timkofu]

Is there a .deb package available? I'm looking for one for heroku.

[kumkee]

That puts it into /usr/local I think, if you'd prefer /usr then do ./configure --prefix=/usr.

If I don't want to install ta-lib as root and ./configure --prefix=$HOME/env/, who do I pip install the wrapper then?