Re: [Pytables-users] Ubuntu 11.10: blosc is not supported?

[Antonio V. <ant...@ti...>]

Hi Francesc, hi Martin,

Il 06/12/2011 14:55, Francesc Alted ha scritto:
> 2011/12/6 PyTables Org <pyt...@go...>
> 
>> Forwarding to the list. ~Josh
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>> *Subject: **Ubuntu 11.10: blosc is not supported?*
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>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed pytables via the Ubuntu package manager (currently version
>> 2.1.2-3.1build1), and we use it a lot for production work. Thanks for this
>> great package!
>>
>> So far I haven't tried enabling compression, but since it says in the
>> documentation BLOSC comes with it, I created a filter with complib="blosc",
>> only to get:
>>
>> ValueError: compression library ``blosc`` is not supported; it must be one
>> of: zlib, lzo, bzip2
>>
>> Do I have to compile a newer version from source to enable BLOSC?
>>
>>
> Yes, you need at least PyTables 2.2 for using Blosc.  Antonio has recently
> released PyTables binaries for Debian in:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytables/files/pytables/2.3.1/
> 
> that might be useful for Ubuntu too.
> 

Yes it should work but it is only for amd64.

Users of Ubuntu 11.10 can use the following PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~a.valentino/+archive/eotools

I'm trying to ush it in the official debian/ubuntu archives but I have
serious problems to contact current maintainers.

cheers

-- 
Antonio Valentino