Installing MGLEX

Dependencies

MGLEX is a Python 3 package, it does not run with Python 2 versions. It depends on

• NumPy (for data types and math operations)
• SciPy (for few math functions)
• docopt (for command line parsing)

Installation

We show how to install MLGEX under Debian and Ubuntu, but other platforms are similar.

You can simply install the requirements as system packages.

sudo apt install python3 python3-numpy python3-scipy

We recommend to create a Python virtual installation enviroment for MGLEX. In order to do so, install the venv package for your Python version (e.g. the Debian package python3.4-venv), if not included (or use virtualenv). The following command will make use of the installed system packages.

python3 -m venv --system-site-packages my-mglex-environment
source my-mglex-environment/bin/activate

MGLEX is deposited on the Python Package Index and we recommend to install it via pip.

python3 -m pip install mglex