Fedora 23 (the current release at the time of writing) ships an outdated version of SciPy that doesn't include the spectrogram function. Installing the latest Scipy was kind-of a pain, so I thought I'd record some instructions for future-me and share it with you.

These instructions install dependencies, set up a python virtualenv container and then install the latest matplotlib, SciPy and Numpy on Fedora 23

Dependencies:

• python-virtualenv

• libpng-devel freetype-devel pygobject2-devel

• redhat-rpm-config

• gcc-gfortran gcc-c++

• atlas-devel lapack-devel

Install these from Fedora repositories:

sudo dnf install python-virtualenv libpng-devel freetype-devel pygobject2-devel redhat-rpm-config gcc-gfortran gcc-c++ atlas-devel lapack-devel

And then the python packages:

virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate

pip install -U pip &&
pip install numpy &&
pip install matplotlib &&
pip install scipy

Installing numpy, matplotlib and scipy simultaneously fails. Thanks, pip.