Installation¶
The recommended installation method for signac-flow is via conda or pip. The software is tested for Python versions 3.6+ and signac versions 1.0+. Supported Python and NumPy versions are determined according to the NEP 29 deprecation policy.
Install with conda¶
You can install signac-flow via conda (available on the conda-forge channel), with:
$ conda install -c conda-forge signac-flow
All additional dependencies will be installed automatically. To upgrade the package, execute:
$ conda update signac-flow
Install with pip¶
To install the package with the package manager pip, execute
$ pip install signac-flow --user
Note
It is highly recommended to install the package into the user space and not as superuser!
To upgrade the package, simply execute the same command with the --upgrade
option.
$ pip install signac-flow --user --upgrade
Source Code Installation¶
Alternatively you can clone the git repository and execute the setup.py
script to install the package.
git clone https://github.com/glotzerlab/signac-flow.git
cd signac-flow
python setup.py install --user