Installing astrodendro

Requirements

This package has the following depdenencies:

  • Python 2.6 or later (Python 3.x is supported)

  • Numpy 1.4.1 or later

  • Astropy 0.2.0 or later, optional (needed for reading/writing FITS files and for analysis code)

  • h5py 0.2.0 or later, optional (needed for reading/writing HDF5 files)

Installation

To install the latest stable release, you can type:

pip install astrodendro

or you can download the latest tar file from PyPI and install it using:

python setup.py install

Developer version

If you want to install the latest developer version of the dendrogram code, you can do so from the git repository:

git clone https://github.com/dendrograms/astrodendro.git
cd astrodendro
python setup.py install

You may need to add the --user option to the last line if you do not have root access.