BioSCRAPE installation issues with NumPy 2

[murrayrm]

Zoila Jurado says:

An issue has arisen with installing bioscrape, the error message on CoLab is shown below.

Ayush Pandey says

It seems that Colab is using numpy v2.0 and above now. Bioscrape installation does not work with numpy versions greater than 2 (we need to fix this). For now, a temporary fix on Google Colab is to force install an older version of numpy and then install bioscrape: 

!pip install "numpy<2"
!pip install bioscrape

I tried running unit tests on MacOS with NumPy 2.2 installed and everything was OK. Is the problem just in installation?

Also, from the error message that Zoila posted, it looks like we are still using setup.py for installation? If so, we should probably shift to pyproject.toml based installation (with pip), which is now standard.

[partrita]

I also got same problems, It seems like a version of python is matter.
Try this.

!uv venv --python 3.9.6
!source .venv/bin/activate
!pip install "numpy<2" bioscrape wget