PyRETIS and its requirements can be installed using pip or using conda as described below. We also describe how PyRETIS can be installed in a virtual environment and how it can be installed directly from the source code using git.
PyRETIS requires Python 3.6 or Python 3.7. Please make sure that you have an updated version of Python installed on your system. PyRETIS depends on several other Python packages, however, these should be installed automatically as part of the installation of PyRETIS. A list of the dependencies can be found below.
pip¶PyRETIS can be installed using pip with the following command:
pip install pyretis
Note: PyRETIS please make sure that you are using a Python environment
of version 3.6 or newer. On some systems, Python 2 may still be the default
version and pip might actually try to install for Python 2.
In this case, use pip3 in the command above.
conda¶PyRETIS can be installed using conda with the following command:
conda install pyretis -c conda-forge
Note: Since PyRETIS will only work with Python 3.6 or newer, please make sure that you are using an environment with a recent version of Python.
You can also install PyRETIS in a virtual environment. Using a virtual environment makes it easier to maintain different versions of PyRETIS and it’s dependencies. The following steps are needed to set up a virtual environment:
Install the virtualenv package.
This can be done using pip:
[sudo] pip install virtualenv
or using a package manager for your operative system, for instance apt if you are
using a Debian-like Linux:
[sudo] apt-get install virtualenv
Create a folder dedicated to your virtual environments, for instance in your home directory:
mkdir ~/name-of-environment-folder
cd ~/name-of-environment-folder
Install the new environment with the desired Python3 interpreter,
using the path to the desired Python executable (usually found in /usr/bin/),
and a name for the virtual environment folder (pyretis-env):
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 ~/name-of-environment-folder/pyretis-env
Note, if you want more control over which version of Python to use, you can
use the -p option in the command above to specify this. For instance,
for version 3.7:
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.7 ~/name-of-environment-folder/pyretis-env
Activate the environment:
source ~/name-of-environment-folder/pyretis-env/bin/activate
Install PyRETIS:
pip install pyretis
The folder ~/name-of-environment-folder/pyretis-env now contains a new Python environment
where PyRETIS has been installed. Since you have sourced the
virtual environment, pip will now refer to the version of pip
installed in the environment and when you install packages, they will be
installed inside the folder ~/name-of-environment-folder/pyretis-env.
Note: that you will have to source the environment each time you want to make use of it
using the source command given above.
Previous versions and the latest (possibly unstable) sources can be
obtained using git:
git clone git@gitlab.com:pyretis/pyretis.git
or,
git clone https://gitlab.com/pyretis/pyretis.git
After cloning the repository, PyRETIS can be
installed via pip (after navigating to the main source directory):
pip install .
or, alternatively:
python setup.py install
After cloning the repository as described above, check out the development branch you are interested in, e.g.:
git checkout develop
Then install the development requirements (these are defined in the file
requirements-dev.txt):
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
Finally, install PyRETIS using:
pip install -e .
After installing from the PyRETIS source, your installation can be tested by running the tests from the main directory:
python -m unittest discover -v -s test
In order to run PyRETIS, the following Python libraries are needed:
These packages can be installed by:
pip install -r requirements.txt
using the requirements.txt
file in the source code directory. This should be automatically done if you
are installing PyRETIS using pip/conda.