pip installing jupyterlab may give you the following error (somewhere in the error output anyway!): The simplest solution I’ve found to this is just to install libzmq. We can pull the latest code from github and install it. I usually install things in /opt but as the pip process will look for libzmq in /usr/local, […]
When trying to install scipy via pip on Solaris you may encounter this error: There’s a simple way to resolve this but it’s not immediately obvious. BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) and LAPACK (Linear Algebra Something Something…?) are actually provided by the Solaris math and perf libraries, so installing those and setting a couple of
Another little snippet that I sometimes forget 🙂 Suppose you have a dataframe with a column that has data in a string format and you need to transform that into a way that a machine learning algorithm can use. One good way is with one-hot encoding which will take the values in the column and
I’ve forgotten this several times now so it’s time I wrote a short post to help me remember in future! In Solaris 11 we use the Image Packaging System to maintain the software on the system. This is written in python and uses libcurl and for non zoned systems setting the http_proxy is sufficient to