I try to transition from Ubuntu to Linux Mint on my new Laptop. As I'm currently working on a project using QuTiP for simulations I want it to work on Linux Mint as well. I followed the installation route from the qutip page http://qutip.org/docs/3.1.0/installation.html#installation-on-ubuntu-linux which as far as ubuntu is concerned worked like a charm. But for Mint it is not working. I get the following error message, which I searched here but didn't get reasonable results.
ImportError: Building module qutip.cy.spmatfuncs failed: ["CompileError: >command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1\n"]
which I'm not really sure what to make out of it, as I'm certainly have gcc installed, a x86 architecture with an intel i7 and linux installed :).
If somebody is facing the same problem or has an idea how to solve the problem I would greatly appreciate it.
Greetings
Edit:
I'm now a bit unsure about my installed python as the first comment suggested. The package description goes as follows
The following packages would be installed: libpython2.7-stdlib:i386, libjack0, libutempter0, libpython-stdlib:i386, xterm, libpython2.7-minimal:i386
(this is the installed package)
But I'm having a 64 bit system so I don't understand why this is installed by default on the Linux Mint 17.3 system. I'm also hesitating because others warned me to mess with the existing python installation.
