Installation

This chapter reviews a couple of different ways of installing PyKYLIE on your system.

Pre-requisites

PyKYLIE requires that the following Python packages are already present:

If you opt to install from PyPI (below), then these pre-requisites should be taken care of automatically, with the exception of PyMSG (which has to be installed manually).

Installing from PyPI

To install PyKYLIE from the Python Package Index (PyPI), use the pip command:

pip install pykylie

If PyKYLIE is already installed, you can upgrade to a more-recent version via

pip install --upgrade pykylie

Installing from Source

To install PyKYLIE from source, download the source code and unpack it from the command line using the tar utility:

tar xf pykylie-dev.tar.gz

Then, use pip to install it:

pip install ./pykylie-dev