install-manual-detailed.md



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Detailed Installation Manual
Installing Python packages with compiled extensions can be a challenge especially
on Windows systems. However, when using Miniconda things can be simplified to a
great extent as this manual hopefully will show you.
The this approach will require you to use the command line, but it is as easy
as copy-pasting them from this page straight into your command prompt.
Installation instructions follow in alphabetical orderby platorm.

Linux

Basic dependencies:


python (3.5 recommended) git gcc gcc-fortran (gfortran)


Use either your system package manager, pip + virtualenv, or Anaconda to
install the following python dependencies:


numpy, cython, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, pyscaffold, future, nose, sphinx,
xlrd, (py)tables, h5py, pytest, pytest-cov, setuptools_scm, setuptools

Note that often the pytables packages is called python-tables instead of
python-pytables.

Dependencies on Mac
People who now how to handle Python on the Mac side are kindly requested to
complete this guide :-)

Dependencies on Windows
A Python installation with compilers is required. If you already have this,
or know how set up such an environment, you skip to
here.

Microsft Visual Studio 2010 Compiler
wetb contains extensions that need to be compiled.
On Windows things are complicated because you need to use the same compiler as
the one used for Python. This means that for compiling extensions on:

Python 2.7 you need Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7,
or the direct link.
Python 3.4 you need MS Visual Studio 2010
Python 3.5 (and later) you need MS Visual Studio 2015
You can install Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 alongside
MS Visual Studio 2010, but you can not install Visual Studio 2010 and 2015
in parallel.

You can find more background information and installation instructions
here,
here,
here,
or here.

Command line