Scikit-learn install on Linux

Scikit-learn is an open source Python library that implements a range of machine learning, preprocessing, cross-validation and visualization algorithms. Follow these steps to install scikit-learn on Linux.

OS updates

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sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Python essential updates

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sudo apt-get install libblas-dev        

sudo apt-get install liblapack-dev      

sudo apt-get install python-dev        

sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev  

sudo apt-get install gfortran          

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools

Scikit-learn

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sudo pip3 install scikit-learn           # for python 3

Optional python packages

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In case of errors please install these optional Python packages, it will fix.

sudo apt-get install python-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev python3-dev

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

In most cases it seems only build-essential and python-dev  are only required.

sudo apt-get install build-essential

sudo apt-get install python-dev