Numpy installation AWS EC2 Error

amazon-ec2, amazon-web-services, numpy, pip, python

Solution

You probably don't have the development packages installed.

Amazon Linux run:

sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

Ubuntu run:

sudo apt-get install packaging-dev

Problem

I tried easy install and pip to install numpy on an EC2 micro instance. Didn't work. I get: RuntimeError: Broken toolchain: cannot link a simple C program I tried virtualenv too, same story. What am I doing wrong?

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