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How to install Python packages on eMac with 10.5.8?
Posted by: 1200XL M.U.L.E. on 2024-03-10 11:58:10
I want to install Python on my eMac and some packages like NumPy, Matplotlib, etc.

Installing the Python package was easy. I downloaded v3.5.4 from python.org. With some help from Google, I was able to get pip installed. I have pip and pip3 running, it seems.

However, I cannot install any packages on the machine. My attempts to install NumPy bonk out with error code 1. The process seemingly cannot get the underlying libraries NumPy depends on. I think it’s because of a security certificate issue.

Is there any way I can make this work or am I out of luck here?

Thanks!
Posted by: halkyardo on 2024-03-10 12:00:59
I want to install Python on my eMac and some packages like NumPy, Matplotlib, etc.

Installing the Python package was easy. I downloaded v3.5.4 from python.org. With some help from Google, I was able to get pip installed. I have pip and pip3 running, it seems.

However, I cannot install any packages on the machine. My attempts to install NumPy bonk out with error code 1. The process seemingly cannot get the underlying libraries NumPy depends on. I think it’s because of a security certificate issue.

Is there any way I can make this work or am I out of luck here?

Thanks!
It's been a while since I messed with this, but I think you'll have better luck installing Python through MacPorts - this gets around the certificate issues by bundling a newer version of OpenSSL. The unfortunate thing is that MacPorts does not have binary packages for older OSes, so the install process has to build everything from source, which can take days on an old machine like that.
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