Installation#

The apstools package is available for installation by conda, pip, or from source.

conda#

If you are using Anaconda Python and have conda installed, install the most recent version with this command:

$ conda install -c conda-forge apstools

pip#

Released versions of apstools are available on PyPI.

If you have pip installed, then you can install:

$ pip install apstools

source#

The latest development versions of apstools can be downloaded from the GitHub repository listed above:

$ git clone http://github.com/BCDA-APS/apstools.git

To install in the standard Python location:

$ cd apstools
$ python setup.py install

To install in user’s home directory:

$ python setup.py install --user

To install in an alternate location:

$ python setup.py install --prefix=/path/to/installation/dir

Required Libraries#

The repository’s environment.yml file lists the additional packages required by apstools. Most packages are available as conda packages from https://anaconda.org. The others are available on https://PyPI.python.org. Among the required packages:

python>=3.7

bluesky, databroker, ophyd

h5py

pandas

pyEpics

pyqt=5

pyRestTable

qt=5

spec2nexus

xlrd