


I’ve done a lot of experimental stuff regarding the graphics on my 10.04, so now a lot of stuff is broken, and I thought upgrading to 11.10 would fix a lot of the harm I caused (it did!). These are home editions, not server editions.

The two versions were the notoriously friendly 10.04, and now 11.10. I installed the Intel C compiler (no sweat), MPICH2, and now I’m at this necessary step before I install mpi4py, a wonderful tool developed here.ĭuring my installation process, I covered two versions of Ubuntu (because I updated midstream). My goal is to install Python 2.7.2 so I can integrate it with my parallel workflow. The bottom line: I have a working python installation because I installed it LOCALLY, but when I attempt a global (or system-wide) installation (using sudo), I run into an error I can’t seem to crack.
