How to run setup.py file correctly?

Question

I am trying to run this setup.py file that was in the .tat.gz file. I will go to the directory and run python setup.py but I get the following error message:

brandon@brandon-NV57H:~/Downloads/numpy-1.9.2$ python setup.py
Running from numpy source directory.
/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'test_suite'
  warnings.warn(msg)
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: no commands supplied
brandon@brandon-NV57H:~/Downloads/numpy-1.9.2$ 

Can anyone help me out? How to fix it? I have both python2.7 and python3.4.

Answer 1

If you want to install it, then the command install:

python setup.py install

If you need to create a package first, use the command buildbefore installation:

python setup.py build

Hope this helps!