Installing "python3 -m pip install jupyter matplotlib plotly_express" fails

[mudgen]

Bug description

I followed the instructions in the tutorial here: https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/hello/vscode.html
It said to execute this command:

python3 -m pip install jupyter matplotlib plotly_express

I executed it and I got the following error output:

 Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-install-nopuxoh1/scipy/setup.py", line 631, in <module>
          setup_package()
        File "/tmp/pip-install-nopuxoh1/scipy/setup.py", line 627, in setup_package
          setup(**metadata)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-osw6z1d6/lib/python3.7/site-packages/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 137, in setup
          config = configuration()
        File "/tmp/pip-install-nopuxoh1/scipy/setup.py", line 529, in configuration
          raise NotFoundError(msg)
      numpy.distutils.system_info.NotFoundError: No BLAS/LAPACK libraries found.
      To build Scipy from sources, BLAS & LAPACK libraries need to be installed.
      See site.cfg.example in the Scipy source directory and
      https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/building/index.html for details.
  
      ----------------------------------------
  Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-nopuxoh1/scipy/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-mzmn3in7/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --prefix /tmp/pip-build-env-0s4nd0vv --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-nopuxoh1/scipy/
  
  ----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python3 -m pip install --ignore-installed --no-user --prefix /tmp/pip-build-env-0s4nd0vv --no-warn-script-location --no-binary :none: --only-binary :none: -i https://pypi.org/simple -- setuptools wheel cython>=0.29.22 oldest-supported-numpy scipy>=1.3" failed with error code 1 in None

I am using MX Linux 19.4. What should I do to get this working so I can follow the rest of the tutorial?

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[cscheid]

Unfortunately, this is an issue with your python/distribution setup, and not a quarto issue.

[mudgen]

Yes, but it is also an issue with the Quarto instructions since they don't work.

[cscheid]

What you're seeing is that you need to install the appropriate dependencies for the libraries, and that will depend on your python and distribution. Unfortunately, that is a general issue with Python and OS support: you will need to know your way. This is sadly, truly not a bug on our end (we would love to be able to fix this, but that's not possible to do given the variety of OSs out there.) I would look for your error message on forums of your particular operating system.

[jspaezp]

I guess this could be moved as a request for improved documentation ... maybe a line mentioning that setting up python and installing packages is beyond the scope of that tutorial

fyi @mudgen ... based on my experience in linux, you have to install libopenblas-dev, which in debian would be something like sudo apt install libopenblas-dev but im not familiar with mx linux

[mudgen]

What you're seeing is that you need to install the appropriate dependencies for the libraries, and that will depend on your python and distribution. Unfortunately, that is a general issue with Python and OS support: you will need to know your way. This is sadly, truly not a bug on our end (we would love to be able to fix this, but that's not possible to do given the variety of OSs out there.) I would look for your error message on forums of your particular operating system.

I understand, thanks.