Scientific python setup in 2016

I have now removed all old posts on how to build your scientific python installation for different platforms. Some years ago, running python was fully possible as a scientific computing alternative, but it required a bit of fiddling with different packages, libraries and a bit of patience.

Now I use anaconda python distribution and have all my additional libraries built as conda packages. I can even have my list of packages as an environment definition and just create that environment on the fly when needed. Works on both windows, mac and linux.

Forget the build problems, spend your brainwaves on something else and grab your anaconda from: https://www.continuum.io/downloads

For the orbit calculations I have made the orekit conda package available at: https://anaconda.org/ssc/orekit