Anybody have experience running NLTK on Mac Lion/Mountain Lion? I'm taking a class in Natural Language Processing and thought I'd download NLTK from NLTK.org, but their instructions don't seem to work. The instructions are:
1) Open Finder>Applications>Utilities>Terminal and type python -V to find out what version of Python is installed
2) Install Setuptools: Download the corresponding version of Setuptools from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools (scroll to the bottom, and pick the filename that contains the right version number and which has the extension .egg). Install it by typing sudo sh Downloads/setuptools-...egg, giving the location of the downloaded file.
3) Install Pip: run sudo easy_install pip
4) Install Numpy (optional): run sudo pip install -U numpy
5) Install PyYAML and NLTK: run sudo pip install -U pyyaml nltk
6) Test installation: run python then type import nltk
Problem is, the NUMPY install blows up, it looks like its trying to compile C and fortran code. I'm trying to learn NLTK, but have spent 2 days trying to just get it to run, let alone do anything with it.
I've found posts talking about needing "HomeBrew??", and "Xcode??". Seems like everything I want to do is dependent on something else. Is there a "Turn key" solution? Kinda like the story about up to your butt in Gators, forgot the original intent was to drain the swamp...
Appreciate any help, I'm really needing to lean this NLTK library, but somewhat stymied.
Thanks,
Geoff
1) Open Finder>Applications>Utilities>Terminal and type python -V to find out what version of Python is installed
2) Install Setuptools: Download the corresponding version of Setuptools from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools (scroll to the bottom, and pick the filename that contains the right version number and which has the extension .egg). Install it by typing sudo sh Downloads/setuptools-...egg, giving the location of the downloaded file.
3) Install Pip: run sudo easy_install pip
4) Install Numpy (optional): run sudo pip install -U numpy
5) Install PyYAML and NLTK: run sudo pip install -U pyyaml nltk
6) Test installation: run python then type import nltk
Problem is, the NUMPY install blows up, it looks like its trying to compile C and fortran code. I'm trying to learn NLTK, but have spent 2 days trying to just get it to run, let alone do anything with it.
I've found posts talking about needing "HomeBrew??", and "Xcode??". Seems like everything I want to do is dependent on something else. Is there a "Turn key" solution? Kinda like the story about up to your butt in Gators, forgot the original intent was to drain the swamp...
Appreciate any help, I'm really needing to lean this NLTK library, but somewhat stymied.
Thanks,
Geoff