Installing Fiducia¶
Requirements¶
Fiducia require Python version 3.7 or newer. Fiducia also require the following openly available packages for installation:
Installation with pip¶
Official releases of Fiducia are published to pypi.org and can simply be pip installed like so:
pip install fiducia
Building and installing from source (for contributors)¶
Make sure you have python installed, preferably via Anaconda¶
Here is where you get Anaconda, and make sure to get the Python 3 version. https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/
Setup installation directory¶
Make a directory called “fiducia” in a sensible place on your system. Preferably in a directory where none of the higher level directory names have spaces in them.
Setup a virtual environment¶
If you have python installed via Anaconda, then create your virtual environment like this
conda create --name fiducia
Clone the repository using git¶
In the fiducia directory you created, run the following on the command line
git clone https://github.com/lanl/fiducia.git
Install requirements¶
pip install -r requirements.txt
Install fiducia¶
If you are a user then do
pip install .
If you wish to help in developing fiducia, then do
pip install -e .
Test if install was successful¶
Open a python and try doing import fiducia
. If all went well then you shouldn’t get any error messages.