Install requires libboost1.48 and 1.49 is current on Ubuntu 13.10

[dartdog]

Libboost 1.48 is not available for Ubuntu 13.10 changing the install.sh file to 1.49, could not get the install of Libboost 1.49 to take properly and.. (after commenting out the libboost line in the install) It seems the install is walking all over my system, installing Python 2.7 and Python 3.3 as well as reinstalling IPython, Pandas and much else that I already had (and had on dev or newer versions),, who knows what I'll have when this is done??
So I'd suggest that you NOT freeze/pin the requirement but allow newer versions to remain (I forget the spec at the moment.
Eg the install is highly risky for people with already running Python set-ups...

some strong warning should be provided!!

[dlovell]

Hi dartdog,

Sorry for issues you're experiencing. We've changed the language of the README.md to try to push people towards the VM and to specify that the install scripts are only tested for Ubuntu 12.04. Hopefully that will prevent similar issues in the future.

In case its helpful, regarding libboost, the requirement is >=1.48. So for Ubuntu 13.10 the default version of libboost should be fine. We specify 1.48 because its not the default on Ubuntu 12.04. Regarding Python 2.7 and Python 3.3, I believe those are installed by the other Ubuntu packages we install as dependencies. If you know of a way to reduce what is installed, I'd be happy to hear about them or accept pull requests that implement them (similarly for programmatically determining which libboost to install).

Re already running Python set-ups and reinstalling IPython, Pandas, etc: I know we require a cython older than the newest version and I know ==0.17.1 works, so we use that. After dealing with this issue, I decided to use the other '==' because we know they work and determining all the possible >= is a bit time consuming. To deal with the python package versioning issues in general, I'd recommend something like virtualenv. Unfortunately, I don't think I can be of more help here.

Best
Dan