Installation

This is a guide on how to install BinPy on your computer.

Linux

Note

We support python 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4. If you have any of these versions of python you are good to go.

Dependencies

We have two dependencies setuptools and ipython. setuptools is used to facilitate installation and ipython is used to provide a separate shell for BinPy.

To install dependencies

sudo apt-get install setuptools ipython-notebook  # Debian OS

sudo yum install python-ipython-notebook # Fedora or CenOS

Install with pip

To install pip on debian os

sudo apt-get install python-pip

To install pip on fedora or cent os

sudo yum -y install python-pip

To get the latest stable version of BinPy

pip install BinPy

To get the development version of BinPy

pip install https://github.com/BinPy/BinPy/zipball/master

Install with git

To install git on your system

sudo apt-get install git  # Debian OS

sudo yum install git-core  # Fedora or CentOS

To get the latest stable version of BinPy

git clone https://github.com/BinPy/BinPy
cd BinPy/
sudo python setup.py install

To get the development version of BinPy

git clone -b develop https://github.com/BinPy/BinPy
cd BinPy/
sudo python setup.py install

Windows

To install dependencies(setuptools and ipython) you can check the following links.

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#windows-8-powershell
• http://ipython.org/install.html

To install BinPy on windows you can use our windows installer.

Note

We generate windows installer only for stable release. To get the development version, you’ll have to use git.

Hint

If you have the git cygwin or you have the github for windows , you can clone the development branch of our repository from https://github.com/BinPy/BinPy.

To install it you will have to run the following commands

cd BinPy/
python setup.py install