Installation
Praxes depends on a few python packages, most of which can be installed on
Linux using the distribution’s package manager, or on Mac OS X with MacPorts.
Note to windows users: you may need to run .exe installers as administrator by
right-clicking on them and choose “run as Administrator”). Check that you have
the following installed:
- Python (version 2.6.x or 2.7.x. May already be installed on Linux)
- Cython (version 0.15 or later, only required for Mac OS X and Linux)
- NumPy (version 1.5.1 or later)
- PyQt4 (version 4.5.2 or later)
- PyMca (version 4.4.0 or later)
- matplotlib (1.1.0 or later)
- h5py (2.1.0 or later) ,
- quantities (optional, only required by physref package)
- Praxes
To install Praxes on OS X or Linux, download the source tar.gz file, unpack it,
and run the following in the source directory:
python setup.py build && sudo python setup.py install
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