fail to install requirements

[OmriTreidel]

I created a new virtual environment and tried to install the requirement via pip install -r requirements.txt On ububtu 16.04 and python 2.7.12.

the error:

Collecting ipython>=2.0 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
Using cached ipython-5.5.0-py2-none-any.whl
Collecting matplotlib>=1.2.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 2))
Downloading matplotlib-2.1.2-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (15.0MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 15.0MB 90kB/s
Collecting numpy>=1.7.1 (from -r requirements.txt (line 3))
Downloading numpy-1.14.0-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl (16.9MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 16.9MB 81kB/s
Collecting pymc==2.3.4 (from -r requirements.txt (line 4))
Downloading pymc-2.3.4.tar.gz (13.1MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 13.1MB 95kB/s
Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/tmp/pip-build-d1jvAH/pymc/setup.py", line 8, in
from numpy.distutils.misc_util import Configuration
ImportError: No module named numpy.distutils.misc_util

----------------------------------------

Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-d1jvAH/pymc/

[rraadd88]

For me, same command worked in Ubuntu 14.04 and python 3.6.
Although it said: Ignoring wsgiref: markers 'python_version < "3.0"' don't match your environment
I'm not sure if I am going to run into some problems later.

[rraadd88]

UPDATE: did ran into problems.
The jupyter notebooks are written in python 2.7. (Should have been mentioned clearly in the README).
I have now made a conda environment file to install whatever is required for the book. Here's a link.
The environment file (yml) can be installed by this command: conda env create -f baye.yml

[nealmcb]

I see the same problem. It seems that pymc expects numpy to be completely installed before its setup.py is run.

See a related issue and background at statsmodels: 0.8.0rc1 implicitly requires numpy to be pre-installed · Issue #3207 · statsmodels/statsmodels

[nealmcb]

Thankfully, pymc3 installs with requirements.txt seem to work, as seen in #441