Install Python/Numpy from source

command reference only, plz install from port

$ wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.2/Python-2.6.2.tgz

$ tar zxvf Python-2.6.2.tgz

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libncursesw5-dev libreadline5-dev libssl-dev libgdbm-dev libbz2-dev libc6-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev

$ cd python-2.6.2

$ ./configure

$ make

$ make install

$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

$ svn co http://svn.scipy.org/svn/numpy/trunk numpy

$ cd numpy

$ sudo python setup.py install

$ wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/scipy/scipy-0.7.0.tar.gz

$ tar zxvf scipy-0.7.0.tar.gz

$ sudo python setup.py install

$ sudo apt-get build-dep matplotlib

$ svn co https://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib matplotlib

$ cd matplotlib

$ sudo python setup.py install

Remove macports completely

% sudo rm -rf  the following folders

/opt/local 

/Applications/MacPorts 

/Library/Tcl/macports1.0 

/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* 

/Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup

Secured SSH

In client:

ssh-keygen -t rsa

In client:

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa

$ scp -P portNum id_rsa.pub username@ip:~/.ssh/authorized_keys

$ sftp -o PORT=portNum username@ip

Ubuntu configuration

First boot

$ sudo passwd root

$ sudo apt-get update

Common command

$ rm -r  folder_name #del a folder

$ mv -f  from_folder   to_folder #move a folder

$ wget -r ftp://name:pwd@ip/path/ # retrieve a folder

Install SSH Server

$ sudo apt-get install ssh

$ sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

change PermitRootLogin no

add AllowUsers  USERNAME

$ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh  restart

$ ssh  userName@IP  -p portNumber

Install Proftpd

$ sudo apt-get install proftpd

$ sudo nano /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf

Change ServerName

change DefaultRoot ~

add the following tow lines after “ShowSymlinks off”

UseReverseDNS off 

IdentLookups off 

$ sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd restart 

Add a port (20/21) for proftpd

$ sudo iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0 -p tcp –dport 20 -j ACCEPT

$ sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd restart

Install Apache2, MySQL and PHP5

$ sudo  apt-get  install  apache2  apache2-mpm-prefork

$ sudo  apt-get  install  php5  libapache2-mod-php5  php5-cli  php5-dev  php5-gd  php5-imagick  php5-mcrypt  php5-xmlrpc

$ sudo  apt-get  install  mysql-server  libapache2-mod-auth-mysql  php5-mysql

Open personal website

$ sudo a2enmod userdir

$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

# do not list your directory

$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default # Global

$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf # local

remove Indexes from option (global and local)!! 

# add new error pages

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf # ctrl+w 404

Install scipy and matplotlib

$ sudo apt-get install python-scipy python-matplotlib python-matplotlib-doc

Install ncftp

$ sudo apt-get install ncftp

$ ncftp -u username hostname -p #login

$ get -r foldername #download

$ ncftpput -u username hostname remotefoldername localfoldername #upload

$ rm -r foldername # del a folder

$ rename file (or folder name)

Install Latex and CJK

$ sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-doc-en texlive-doc-zh texlive-latex* latex-cjk-chinese*

$ sudo apt-get install latex-beamer

$ sudo apt-get install kile

Install SVN

$ sudo apt-get install subversion

Matplot installation and examples

Source

Note:

After installation, you have to set the backend of matplot

First, change the permission by sudo chmod +w, and then edit the file by nano.

/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc

Finally, select the backend as TkAgg

Example:

import pylab as plt

a = plt.randn(10000)

plt.hist(a,100)

Change the bash prompt

$ nano .bash_profile

# set prompt: “username@hostname:/directory $ ”

PS1=”\u@\h:\w ” 
case `id -u` in
      0) PS1=”${PS1}# “;;
      *) PS1=”${PS1}$ “;;
esac

$ sudo scutil –set HostName mb

Install Python/Numpy/Django by Macports

Install MacPorts from http://www.macports.org/

$ sudo port -d selfupdate # update the macport list

$ sudo port install python26

$ sudo port install python_select  

$ sudo python_select python26

$ sudo port install py26-numpy py26-ipython py26-scipy py26-matplotlib

$ sudo port install py26-wxpython py26-setuptools py26-pyqt4 py26-pyobjc2 py26-psyco py26-numeric py26-nose py26-matplotlib-basemap

$ sudo port install fftw-3 libpng subversion subversion-python26bindings

$ sudo port install py26-django

$ sudo port upgrade installed # upgrade what you have if you want