scikit-umfpack provides wrapper of UMFPACK sparse direct solver to SciPy.

Use this if you wish to use the UMFPACK solver via scipy.sparse.linalg.dsolve.linsolve(), for SciPy >= 0.14.0.

scikit-umfpack depends on NumPy and SciPy, swig is a build-time dependency.

This package uses distutils, which is the default way of installing python modules. In the directory scikit-umfpack (the same as the file you are reading now) do:

python setup.py install

or for a local installation:

python setup.py install --root=<DIRECTORY>

You can check the latest sources with the command:

git clone https://github.com/rc/scikit-umfpack.git

or if you have write privileges:

git clone git@github.com:rc/scikit-umfpack.git

After installation, you can launch the test suite from outside the source directory (you will need to have the nose package installed):

nosetests -v scikits.umfpack