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When installing VisTrails on a Debian-based linux distribution (any variant using the apt package management system) the following commands must be issued as the root user or preceeded by sudo
VisTrails now interfaces with apt directly via a Python API. This allows dynamic installation of necessary packages. As a result, you don't need to install any packages for the basic VisTrails install either. Just download the source and execute it with


Install Graphviz:
$ python vistrails.py
* apt-get install graphviz


Install Python:
and VisTrails should detect all necessary software and, if necessary, ask for your permission to install it.
* apt-get install python
 
Install Python Extensions:
* apt-get install python-xml
* apt-get install python-soappy
 
Install Qt 4.2.0 or above:
* You can get the open source version for all platforms [http://www.trolltech.com/download/opensource.html here]
* After downloading, you need to build the Qt library:
  * Run '''configure''' then '''make'''
 
Install PyQt4:
* Note: The Python bindings for QT4 provided by the apt-get installation work only for QT 4.1
* Download sip 4.5.2 [http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/download.php here]
  * sudo python configure.py
  * sudo make; make install
* Download PyQt4.1.1 [http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/download.php here]
  * sudo python configure.py
  * sudo make; make install
 
Install MySQLdb (Python library allowing MySQL databases access):
* apt-get install python-mysqldb
 
Install SciPy and NumPy
* sudo apt-get install python-scipy (python-numpy is a dependency that is installed automatically by apt)

Latest revision as of 20:22, 16 May 2008

VisTrails now interfaces with apt directly via a Python API. This allows dynamic installation of necessary packages. As a result, you don't need to install any packages for the basic VisTrails install either. Just download the source and execute it with 

$ python vistrails.py

and VisTrails should detect all necessary software and, if necessary, ask for your permission to install it.

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