4. Installation

Note to Packagers: Please don’t create PyMetrology package (PiPY do the job)

4.1. On Windows

Firstly, you have to install the Anaconda Distribution so as to get a full featured Python 3 environment.

Then open the Anaconda Navigator and launch a console for your root environment.

You can now run pip to install PyMetrology in your root environment using this command:

pip install PyMetrology

4.2. On Linux

Firstly, you have to install Python 3 from your distribution.

Then you can install PyMetrology using pip or from source. See supra.

4.3. On OSX

There are several ways to get Python on OSX:

You can install PyMetrology using pip or from source. See supra.

4.4. Installation from PyPi Repository

PyMetrology is available on the Python Packages PyPI repository at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyMetrology

Run this command in the console to install the latest release:

pip install PyMetrology

4.5. Install a more recent version from Github

If you want to install a version which is not yet released on Pypi, you can use one of theses commands to install the stable or devel branch:

pip install git+https://github.com/FabriceSalvaire/PyMetrology

pip install git+https://github.com/FabriceSalvaire/PyMetrology@devel

4.6. Installation from Source

The PyMetrology source code is hosted at https://github.com/FabriceSalvaire/PyMetrology

You have to solution to get the source code, the first one is to clone the repository, but if you are not familiar with Git then you can simply download an archive either from the PyMetrology Pypi page (at the bottom) or the GitHub page (see clone or download button).

To clone the Git repository, run this command in a console:

git clone https://github.com/FabriceSalvaire/PyMetrology.git

Then to build and install PyMetrology run these commands:

python setup.py build
python setup.py install

4.7. Dependencies

PyMetrology requires the following dependencies:

Also it is recommanded to have these Python modules:

To generate the documentation, you will need in addition: