title: Installing OpenMDAO
body: <p>I am trying to install OpenMDAO, which is an open source framework that uses python. So before I get to it, it needs 3 packages:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Fortran Compiler</li>
  <li>NumPY</li>
  <li>ScyPy</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Which I did install using homebrew:</p>
  
  <pre><code>brew install gfortran
  sudo easy_install-2.6 pip
  sudo pip-2.6 install numpy
  sudo pip-2.6 install scipy
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now, to install OpenMDAO, I'm supposed to be in the OpenMDAO folder and at that level I should run this script:</p>
  
  <pre><code>python go-openmdao-dev.py
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I keep getting this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ERROR: the following prerequisites could not be imported: ['scipy'].
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So I was talking to the people at OpenMDAO, and it seems that I need to use is python2.6 - although I'm not certain, so my guess is that all the packages I installed are for python 2.7 which I downloaded since it was recommended in the python website.</p>
  
  <p>The one that comes with Mac was not. So when I type in terminal the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>python2.6
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It actually runs that version. So at this point I don't know if I have to go run the script in python 2.6, but if so, I have no idea how to do it. I tried doing this and it did not work:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MYZsD.png" alt="Screenshot of the problem"></p>
  
  <p>If anyone is familiar with the environment or just with python itself and has any suggestions, I'll really appreciate it.</p>