Installation guide

pyAnno can be installed on any platform that runs Python, including all recent flavors of Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Index

• Installation guide
  • Install dependencies
  • Binary installers
  • Installing with pip or easy_install
  • Installing from source

Install dependencies

To use pyAnno you will need the following:

• Python 2.7 http://www.python.org/
• numpy 1.6 http://numpy.scipy.org/
• scipy 0.9.0 http://www.scipy.org/
• traits 4.0.1 http://code.enthought.com/projects/traits/
• chaco 4.1.0 http://code.enthought.com/chaco/
• wxPython 2.8.10 http://www.wxpython.org/

The easiest way to satisfy all of these dependencies is to install the EPD Free Python distribution. For your convenience, we prepared installers for Mac OS X and Windows that include both pyAnno and the EPD Free distribution:

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Note

The 64-bit EPD Free distribution for Mac OS X does not include wxPython (because of lack of support from Apple). Please install the fully-featured 32-bit version.

Binary installers

The most convenient way to install pyAnno is to use our custom EPD Free installers for Mac OS X and Windows, which include the latest version of Python and all scientific libraries necessary to run pyAnno:

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If you already have a Python installation with all the dependencies listed above, you will find Windows and Mac OS X binary installers at

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To executable scripts to start the pyAnno GUI will be installed in the scripts path of your Python installation. On Windows, this will usually be at C:\Python27\Scripts\pyanno-ui , and on Mac OS X at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/pyanno-ui.

You can also start the pyAnno GUI from a terminal with the command

pyanno-ui

Installing with pip or easy_install

pyAnno is hosted on PyPi, so it can be installed simply with either pip (recommended) or easy_install . Both tools are very easy to install, and are often available out of the box on many Python distributions.

To install pyAnno, simply type on the command line:

pip install pyanno

or

easy_install pyanno

If you do not have administrator permissions in the Python folder, you should pre-pend the commands above with sudo (e.g., sudo pip install pyanno).

The pyAnno GUI can then be started from the terminal by typing

pyanno-ui

Installing from source

pyAnno’s source code repository is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/enthought/uchicago-pyanno . To install the library from the latest source:

1. Clone pyAnno’s git repository

   git clone git://github.com/enthought/uchicago-pyanno.git

2. Enter the repository

   cd uchicago-pyanno

3. Install pyAnno

   python setup.py install