3. Installation

Note to Packagers: Please don’t create Pyterate package (PyPI do the job)

3.1. Dependencies

Pyterate requires the following dependencies to generate figures.

To generate Circuit_Macros figures:

To generate Tikz figures:

  • pdflatex

To convert SVG to PNG image.

3.2. 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 Pyterate in your root environment using this command:

pip install Pyterate

3.3. On Linux

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

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

3.4. On OSX

There are several ways to get Python on OSX:

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

3.5. Installation from PyPi Repository

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

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

pip install Pyterate

3.6. 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/Pyterate

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

3.7. Installation from Source

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

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 Pyterate 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/Pyterate.git

Then to build and install Pyterate run these commands:

python setup.py build
python setup.py install