OSX

System

Install Homebrew on OS earlier than 10.9

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew/go/install)"

(in .bash_profile)
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

Install pymvpa

1) Install Homebrew:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install"
2) mkdir /Users/Shared/PyMVPA; cd  /Users/Shared/
3) sudo easy_install pip
4) pip install virtualenv
5) virtualenv PyMVPA
6) cd PyMVPA
7) . bin/activate
8) pip install numpy
9) pip install scipy
10) pip install nibabel
11) pip install ipython'[all]'
12) pip install scikit-learn
13) pip install matplotlib
14) brew install swig
15) Grab the PyMVPA source (and place into your virtualenv folder):

git clone git://github.com/PyMVPA/PyMVPA.git

16)Install libsvm:
brew install gnuplot
brew install qt4
brew install libsvm


17)Install PyMVPA:
make 3rd
python setup.py build_ext –with-libsvm
python setup.py install –with-libsvm
18) Download tutorial data at: http://data.pymvpa.org/datasets/haxby2001/
19) Unzip and Place data in /Users/Shared/PyMVPA/Tutorial_Data

And remember that you should cd to another directory when calling the test command:

from  mvpa2.tutorial_suite import *

Otherwise you will see the following complaint: