Can't install Scipy through pip

Question

After opening up an issue with the SciPy team, we found that you need to upgrade pip with:

pip install --upgrade pip

And in Python 3 this works:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

for SciPy to install properly. Why? Because:

Older versions of pip have to be told to use wheels, IIRC with --use-wheel. Or you can upgrade pip itself, then it should pick up the wheels.

Upgrading pip solves the issue, but you might be able to just use the --use-wheel flag as well.

Microsoft Windows users of 64 bit Python installations will need to download the 64 bit .whl of Scipy from here, then simply cd into the folder you've downloaded the .whl file and run:

pip install scipy-0.16.1-cp27-none-win_amd64.whl

I face same problem when install Scipy under ubuntu.
I had to use command:

$ sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev gfortran
$ sudo pip3 install scipy

You can get more details here Installing SciPy with pip
Sorry don't know how to do it under OS X Yosemite.

In windows 10, most options will not work. Follow these steps:

In Windows 10 with CMD, you cannot download scipy directly using most of the well known commands like wget, cloning scipy github, pip install scipy, etc

To install, go to pythonlibs .whl files , and if you are using python 2.7 32 bit then download numpy-1.11.2rc1+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl and scipy-0.18.1-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl or if python 2.7 62 bit then download numpy-1.11.2rc1+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl and scipy-0.18.1-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl

After downloading,save the files under your python directory , in my case it was c:\>python27

Then run:

pip install C:\Python27\numpy-1.11.2rc1+mkl-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl 
pip install C:\Python27\scipy-0.18.1-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl

Note:

1. scipy needs numpy as dependency, so that's why we are downloading numpy before scipy.
2. cp27 in .whl files means that these files are meant for python 2.7 and cp33 stands for python 3.x speciafically >=3.3

After finding this answer for some clues, I got this working by doing

brew install gcc 
pip install scipy

(The first of these steps took 96 minutes on my 2011 Mac Book Air so I hope you're not in a hurry!)