Installation

Linux

Installation is easiest if you already have a working Anaconda installation. In this case, simply navigate to the root directory of the project where the setup.py file is and execute python setup.py install.

If you don’t have Anaconda, then you may need to also install the HDF5 shared library with development headers (1.8.4 or newer, packaged as libhdf5-dev or similar). Once you have that installed you should be able to successfully run python setup.py install.

Issues

Building seems to work fine with Python 3.4 and 2.7 when starting with a base Anaconda installation. When building with a minimal Python installation (i.e. in an environment created by conda create --name new_env python=2.7 or conda create --name new_env python=3, there seem to be problems building matplotlib. In Python 3 I get TypeError: unorderable types: str() < int() at the line reading if self.version < other.version:, and in Python 2 I get:

* The following required packages can not be built:
* freetype