Installation Guide#

PvMail is available for installation by conda, pip, or from source. Please report any issues you encounter or feature requests, too.

Released versions of PvMail are available on conda-forge.

If you have conda installed, then you can install:

$ conda install conda-forge::pvmail

Released versions of PvMail are available on PyPI.

If you have pip installed, then you can install:

$ pip install PvMail

The latest development version of PvMail can be downloaded from the GitHub repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/BCDA-APS/pvmail

Install from the source directory using pip in editable mode:

$ cd pvmail
$ python -m pip install -e .

Dependencies#

This software was built with packages from the Python standard library and these additional packages:

  • PyQt5 package to manage the GUI

  • PyEpics for EPICS CA connections

  • PyDM for EPICS-aware Qt widgets