Installation guide#
femto
can be installed using pip
.
As a first step, check that you have a working Python with pip
installed by running the following command:
python -m pip --version
If pip
is not installed in the system, follow this
installation guide.
The preferred way to install the package is using a virtual environment. In Python this can be done using several tool such as virtualenv or conda.
virtualenv#
virtualenv
has to be installed from pip
.
pip install virtualenv
Create a new virtual environment named femto_venv
using
virtualenv femto_venv
Finally, activate the virtual environment
.\femto_venv\Scripts\activate
Check that Python is correctly activated using the command
Get-Command python | fl *
The python.exe
executable should be inside the .\femto_venv\Scripts
directory.
conda/miniconda/Anaconda#
Open the conda/Anaconda prompt and type the following commands
Update the conda manager:
conda update conda
Create a virtual environment:
conda create --name femto python=3.8
Note
femto
supports all the versions of Python from 3.7.
Activate the environment:
conda activate femto
Once the virtual environment is set up, simply install the packages (and its dependencies) with this command:
pip install git+https://github.com/ricalbr/femto.git