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I'm trying to run this setup.py file, which was in a .tat.gz file. I'm going to the directory it's in and running python setup.py but get this error message:

brandon@brandon-NV57H:~/Downloads/numpy-1.9.2$ python setup.py
Running from numpy source directory.
/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'test_suite'
  warnings.warn(msg)
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: no commands supplied
brandon@brandon-NV57H:~/Downloads/numpy-1.9.2$

Can anyone help me out? How do I fix this? I have both python2.7 and python3.4.

Brandon
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If you want to install it then the command is install:

python setup.py install

If you need to build the package first, use the build command before installing:

python setup.py build

Hope this helps!

cdonts
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