Installation¶
Supported platforms¶
Operating system: Linux
Python: 3.6 and 3.7
Note
We highly recommend installing and using the free Anaconda distribution of Python (or Miniconda, if you don’t want all of the extra packages that come built-in with Anaconda), which works on Mac, Linux, and Windows, both on normal computers and institutional clusters and doesn’t require root permissions.
Recommended installation method: conda¶
The recommended installation method is via conda
conda install -c dennissergeev octant
Latest nightly build:
conda install -c dennissergeev/label/nightly octant
Alternative method: clone from Github¶
You can also directly clone the Github repo
git clone https://www.github.com/dennissergeev/octant.git
cd octant
python setup.py install
Verifying proper installation¶
Once installed via any of these methods, you can run octant’s suite of tests using py.test. From the top-level directory of the octant installation
conda install pytest # if you don't have it already; or 'pip install pytest'
py.test octant
If you don’t know the directory where octant was installed, you can find it via
python -c "import octant; print(octant.__path__[0])"
If the pytest command results in any error messages or test failures, something has gone wrong, and please refer to the Troubleshooting information below.
Troubleshooting¶
Please search through the Issues page on Github if anybody else has had the same problem you’re facing. If none do, then please send open a new Issue.