# Nupic binding error in ubuntu 16

**URL:** <https://discourse.numenta.org/t/nupic-binding-error-in-ubuntu-16/3714>\
**Category:** NuPIC\
**Tags:** installation, bug\
**Created:** [March 28, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/nupic-binding-error-in-ubuntu-16/3714 "2018-03-28T20:47:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sanjukta\_Biswal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/sanjukta_biswal/32/4784_2.png) [@Sanjukta\_Biswal](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Sanjukta_Biswal)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/nupic-binding-error-in-ubuntu-16/3714/1 "2018-03-28T20:47:56Z")

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Hello…I am a newbie to nupic…trying to install nupic in ubuntu 16.04 but i m getting below http error during installing nupic binding…please suggest what needs to be done to resolve this issue.I have tried installing numpy using pip and was working fine.

```
$ pip install https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/artifacts.numenta.org/numenta/nupic.core/releases/nupic.bindings/nupic.bindings-0.4.4-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl --user
Collecting nupic.bindings==0.4.4 from https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/artifacts.numenta.org/numenta/nupic.core/releases/nupic.bindings/nupic.bindings-0.4.4-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl
  HTTP error 404 while getting https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/artifacts.numenta.org/numenta/nupic.core/releases/nupic.bindings/nupic.bindings-0.4.4-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl
  Could not install requirement nupic.bindings==0.4.4 from https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/artifacts.numenta.org/numenta/nupic.core/releases/nupic.bindings/nupic.bindings-0.4.4-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl because of error 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/artifacts.numenta.org/numenta/nupic.core/releases/nupic.bindings/nupic.bindings-0.4.4-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl
Could not install requirement nupic.bindings==0.4.4 from https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/artifacts.numenta.org/numenta/nupic.core/releases/nupic.bindings/nupic.bindings-0.4.4-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl because of HTTP error 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/artifacts.numenta.org/numenta/nupic.core/releases/nupic.bindings/nupic.bindings-0.4.4-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl for URL https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/artifacts.numenta.org/numenta/nupic.core/releases/nupic.bindings/nupic.bindings-0.4.4-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl
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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/nupic-binding-error-in-ubuntu-16/3714/2 "2018-03-28T21:09:14Z")

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I think you might be using old instructions. Can you try running:

```
pip install nupic --user
```

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**Author:** ![Sanjukta\_Biswal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/sanjukta_biswal/32/4784_2.png) [@Sanjukta\_Biswal](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Sanjukta_Biswal)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/nupic-binding-error-in-ubuntu-16/3714/3 "2018-03-28T21:13:55Z")

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Thank you for the quick reply.

I tried to run `pip install nupic --user` ,seems having memory error. May be i have to increase memory size .

```
 sanjukta@sanjukta-ubuntu16:~$ pip install nupic --user
Collecting nupic
  Using cached nupic-1.0.3-py2-none-any.whl
Requirement already satisfied: validictory==0.9.1 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from nupic)
Requirement already satisfied: PyMySQL==0.6.2 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from nupic)
Requirement already satisfied: unittest2==0.5.1 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from nupic)
Requirement already satisfied: ordereddict==1.1 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from nupic)
Requirement already satisfied: psutil==1.0.1 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from nupic)
Requirement already satisfied: prettytable==0.7.2 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from nupic)
Requirement already satisfied: PyYAML==3.10 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from nupic)
Requirement already satisfied: pytest-cov==2.5.0 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from nupic)
Requirement already satisfied: pytest==3.0.7 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from nupic)
Requirement already satisfied: pyproj==1.9.3 in ./.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from nupic)
Collecting pycapnp==0.5.12; platform_system == "Linux" or platform_system == "Darwin" (from nupic)
  Using cached pycapnp-0.5.12.tar.gz
Collecting python-dateutil==2.1 (from nupic)
Collecting numpy==1.12.1 (from nupic)
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/basecommand.py", line 215, in main
    status = self.run(options, args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/commands/install.py", line 335, in run
    wb.build(autobuilding=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/wheel.py", line 749, in build
    self.requirement_set.prepare_files(self.finder)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 380, in prepare_files
    ignore_dependencies=self.ignore_dependencies))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/req/req_set.py", line 620, in _prepare_file
    session=self.session, hashes=hashes)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 821, in unpack_url
    hashes=hashes
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 659, in unpack_http_url
    hashes)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 853, in _download_http_url
    stream=True,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 521, in get
    return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/download.py", line 386, in request
    return super(PipSession, self).request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 508, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/requests/sessions.py", line 618, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/adapter.py", line 37, in send
    cached_response = self.controller.cached_request(request)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/controller.py", line 111, in cached_request
    resp = self.serializer.loads(request, cache_data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/serialize.py", line 114, in loads
    return getattr(self, "_loads_v{0}".format(ver))(request, data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pip/_vendor/cachecontrol/serialize.py", line 176, in _loads_v2
    cached = json.loads(zlib.decompress(data).decode("utf8"))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/ __init__.py", line 339, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 364, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 380, in raw_decode
    obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx)
MemoryError
```

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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/nupic-binding-error-in-ubuntu-16/3714/4 "2018-03-28T21:49:13Z")

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Hmm, I have never seen this `MemoryError` before. How much memory do you have for this process?

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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/nupic-binding-error-in-ubuntu-16/3714/5 "2018-03-29T15:27:03Z")

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