[pymvpa] ‘LinearNuSVMC’ is not defined error with smlr.py

[Michael Hanke]

Hi Jo,

I hope you'll get this. I just received an answer from the mailserver
@med.umcg.nl claiming that your email address is not known...

Michael

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 01:11:43PM +0100, Michael Hanke wrote:
> Hi, Jo,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:54:18PM +0100, Jo Etzel wrote:
> > Thank you for all of your previous help. I am only starting to get 
> > familiar with pyMVPA, so apologize if this is an obvious question.
> > 
> > I am running pyMVPA on Windows XP, following your installation 
> > instructions (Python 2.5.4, IDLE 1.2.4, NumPy, SciPy, PyNIfTI, 
> > matplotlib; all with binaries); I’m using the IDLE shell. I can run the 
> > start_easy.py and smellit.py examples, but not smlr.py. smlr.py runs 
> > partway, then gives the error ‘name ‘LinearNuSVMC’ is not defined’.
> > 
> > In the mvpa.clfs.libsvmc module I only see classes C, N, c_darray, 
> > ctypes_helper, debug, extend_args, os, smlrib, stepwise_regresion, and 
> > sys; attempting to load mvpa.clfs.libsvmc.svm gives the error ‘cannot 
> > import name _svmc’. (I actually want to get to a linear SVM.)
> > 
> > I tried installing libsvm, and I think it worked (I can ‘from svm import 
> > *’ in python), but the problem remains. Is this an installation or 
> > configuration problem?
> 
> Did you compile PyMVPA yourself? I just used the binary installer we
> provide on the website and checked the smlr.py example -- it runs just
> fine.
> 
> The pymvpa sources include a copy of libsvm that should be built
> automatically as a dependency of the SVM extension. It looks like in
> your case that did not happen.
> 
> Can you give us some more information how you installed pymvpa (and
> which version)? Could you also please check whether the windows
> installer works for you?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 
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