(venv) vlt@d3e1bbfdc6c4:~/numpy$ dpkg -l gcc g++ gfortran libopenblas-dev liblapack-dev pkg-config python3-pip python3-dev
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                  Version       Architecture Description
+++-=====================-=============-============-==================================================================
ii  g++                   4:14.2.0-1    arm64        GNU C++ compiler
ii  gcc                   4:14.2.0-1    arm64        GNU C compiler
ii  gfortran              4:14.2.0-1    arm64        GNU Fortran 95 compiler
ii  liblapack-dev:arm64   3.12.1-6      arm64        Library of linear algebra routines 3 - static version
ii  libopenblas-dev:arm64 0.3.29+ds-3   arm64        Optimized BLAS (linear algebra) library (dev, meta)
ii  pkg-config:arm64      1.8.1-4       arm64        manage compile and link flags for libraries (transitional package)
ii  python3-dev           3.13.5-1      arm64        header files and a static library for Python (default)
ii  python3-pip           25.1.1+dfsg-1 all          Python package installer

vlt@d3e1bbfdc6c4:~$ . venv/bin/activate

(venv) vlt@d3e1bbfdc6c4:~$ git clone https://github.com/numpy/numpy.git
Cloning into 'numpy'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 314398, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (498/498), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (225/225), done.
remote: Total 314398 (delta 361), reused 273 (delta 273), pack-reused 313900 (from 3)
Receiving objects: 100% (314398/314398), 169.88 MiB | 39.16 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (248913/248913), done.

(venv) vlt@d3e1bbfdc6c4:~$ cd numpy/

(venv) vlt@d3e1bbfdc6c4:~/numpy$ git submodule update --init
Submodule 'doc/source/_static/scipy-mathjax' (https://github.com/scipy/scipy-mathjax.git) registered for path 'doc/source/_static/scipy-mathjax'
Submodule 'numpy/_core/src/common/pythoncapi-compat' (https://github.com/python/pythoncapi-compat) registered for path 'numpy/_core/src/common/pythoncapi-compat'
Submodule 'numpy/_core/src/highway' (https://github.com/google/highway.git) registered for path 'numpy/_core/src/highway'
Submodule 'numpy/_core/src/npysort/x86-simd-sort' (https://github.com/intel/x86-simd-sort) registered for path 'numpy/_core/src/npysort/x86-simd-sort'
Submodule 'numpy/_core/src/umath/svml' (https://github.com/numpy/SVML.git) registered for path 'numpy/_core/src/umath/svml'
Submodule 'numpy/fft/pocketfft' (https://github.com/mreineck/pocketfft) registered for path 'numpy/fft/pocketfft'
Submodule 'vendored-meson/meson' (https://github.com/numpy/meson.git) registered for path 'vendored-meson/meson'
Cloning into '/home/vlt/numpy/doc/source/_static/scipy-mathjax'...
Cloning into '/home/vlt/numpy/numpy/_core/src/common/pythoncapi-compat'...
Cloning into '/home/vlt/numpy/numpy/_core/src/highway'...
Cloning into '/home/vlt/numpy/numpy/_core/src/npysort/x86-simd-sort'...
Cloning into '/home/vlt/numpy/numpy/_core/src/umath/svml'...
Cloning into '/home/vlt/numpy/numpy/fft/pocketfft'...
Cloning into '/home/vlt/numpy/vendored-meson/meson'...
Submodule path 'doc/source/_static/scipy-mathjax': checked out '36f4c898f2255e0c98eb6949cd67381552d5ffea'
Submodule path 'numpy/_core/src/common/pythoncapi-compat': checked out '8636bccf29adfa23463f810b3c2830f7cff1e933'
Submodule path 'numpy/_core/src/highway': checked out 'ee36c837129310be19c17c9108c6dc3f6ae06942'
Submodule path 'numpy/_core/src/npysort/x86-simd-sort': checked out '5adb33411f3cea8bdbafa9d91bd75bc4bf19c7dd'
Submodule path 'numpy/_core/src/umath/svml': checked out '3a713b13018325451c1b939d3914ceff5ec68e19'
Submodule path 'numpy/fft/pocketfft': checked out '33ae5dc94c9cdc7f1c78346504a85de87cadaa12'
Submodule path 'vendored-meson/meson': checked out '5d5a3d478da115c812be77afa651db2492d52171'

(venv) vlt@d3e1bbfdc6c4:~/numpy$ pip install .
Processing ./.
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Installing backend dependencies ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [22 lines of output]
      + /home/vlt/venv/bin/python /home/vlt/numpy/vendored-meson/meson/meson.py setup /home/vlt/numpy /home/vlt/numpy/.mesonpy-q24abqqj -Dbuildtype=release -Db_ndebug=if-release -Db_vscrt=md --native-file=/home/vlt/numpy/.mesonpy-q24abqqj/meson-python-native-file.ini
      The Meson build system
      Version: 1.9.2
      Source dir: /home/vlt/numpy
      Build dir: /home/vlt/numpy/.mesonpy-q24abqqj
      Build type: native build
      Project name: NumPy
      Project version: 2.5.0.dev0+git20260420.d3a7317
      C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 14.2.0 "cc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0")
      C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.44
      C++ compiler for the host machine: c++ (gcc 14.2.0 "c++ (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0")
      C++ linker for the host machine: c++ ld.bfd 2.44
      Cython compiler for the host machine: cython (cython 3.2.4)
      Host machine cpu family: aarch64
      Host machine cpu: aarch64
      Program python found: YES (/home/vlt/venv/bin/python)
      Found pkg-config: YES (/usr/bin/pkg-config) 1.8.1
      Run-time dependency python found: NO (tried pkgconfig, pkgconfig and sysconfig)

      ../meson.build:39:12: ERROR: Python dependency not found

      A full log can be found at /home/vlt/numpy/.mesonpy-q24abqqj/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> from file:///home/vlt/numpy

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.
(venv) vlt@d3e1bbfdc6c4:~/numpy$