Installation

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Installation

The easiest way to get Mesmerize is through the Snap Store

Command line snap installation:

sudo snap install mesmerize

Launch

After installation simply run mesmerize in the terminal and the application will launch in ~10-30 seconds. Make sure your PYTHONPATH environment variable is empty otherwise it might conflict with the snap.:

export PYTHONPATH=

You can also open an ipython console in the snap environment:

mesmerize.ipython

Note

You might get the following warnings when you launch the snap, this is normal. Just be patient and wait a few minutes:

warnings.warn(‘%s%s’ % (e, warn))

/snap/mesmerize/x1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:281: UserWarning: Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list. This may take a moment.

‘Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list. ‘

Bokeh could not be loaded. Either it is not installed or you are not running within a notebook

Loading, please wait…

Qt: Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed

Requirements

Make sure you have snapd installed, which is required for running snap apps. Ubuntu 16.04 and later usually come pre-installed with snapd.

You should be able to install snapd through apt for most Debian based distros:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd

Installing snapd on Fedora:

sudo dnf install snapd

To install snapd on other distros please see: https://docs.snapcraft.io/installing-snapd

If you have trouble installing Mesmerize via snap you might need to install core18 first:

sudo snap install core18

Limitations

The snap installation has several limitations, most importantly you will not be able to access arbitrary filesystems. If you need this you will have to install directly from the repo (see From GitHub). If you are able to mount your external filesystem in /media (or wherever your distro places removeable media) then you should be able to access these filesystems if you do the following:

sudo snap connect mesmerize:removable-media

Alternatively you can install the snap in devmode (gives that snap broad access to the system):

sudo snap install mesmerize --devmode

Warning

Analysis graphs do not work in the snap version at the moment.

From GitHub

Easy

This installation method should work on Linux and Mac.

First, make sure you have compilers & python.

For Debian & Ubuntu based distros

Get build tools and other things:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

For other distros look for the equivalent meta-package that contains gcc, glibc, etc.

If you don’t have python3.6:

sudo apt-get install python3.6

For other distros lookup how to install python3.6 through their package manager.

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install qt5-default tcl graphviz git

For other distros these packages probably have the same or similar names.

For Mac OSX

Install Xcode:

xcode-select --install

This might take a while.

Install brew:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Install python 3.6.5:

brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/f2a764ef944b1080be64bd88dca9a1d80130c558/Formula/python.rb

Install Mesmerize

1. Create a virtual environment:

   # Choose a path to house the virtual environment
   python3.6 -m venv /path/to/venv
   

2. Activate the virtual environment:

   source /path/to/venv/bin/activate
   

3. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/kushalkolar/MESmerize.git
   

4. cd & switch to the snap branch:

   cd MESmerize
   git checkout snap
   

5. Install some build dependencies:

   pip install Cython numpy python-dateutil
   

6. Install remaining dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

7. Build some things:

   python setup.py build_ext -i
   

8. Add to PYTHONPATH environment variable:

   export PYTHONPATH=$PWD:$PYTHONPATH
   

You will always need to add the path to MESmerize to the PYTHONPATH environment varible before launching.

1. Launch:

   python ./mesmerize
   

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