General instructions for installing from source (advanced users)

1. Install python 3.X (if it isn’t already installed), RAW is tested on 3.7 and 3.8.

2. Install python3 development tools and gcc (if they are not already installed).

3. Install the following python packages (version indicated if less than most recent):

   • numpy

   • scipy

   • matplotlib

   • pillow

   • wxpython

   • h5py

   • cython

   • fabio

   • pyFAI

   • hdf5plugin

   • numba

   • dbus-python

   • reportlab

   • mmcif_pdbx

   • svglib

4. Download RAW source code from sourceforge ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/bioxtasraw/files)

5. Extract RAW to a directory of your choice.

6. In the top level RAW directory run python setup.py build_ext --inplace to build the extensions.

7. In the bioxtasraw subdirectory run RAW.py using python.

8. Enjoy!

   • If you have problems, please consult the detailed installation guides and check out the solutions to common problems.

   • If you want, see the section on making a desktop shortcut for RAW.

Notes for python 2 installation

As of version 2.0.0, RAW is Python 3 compatible. The last guaranteed Python 2 compatible version of RAW is 2.0.0. However, it may still be possible to install RAW for Python 2. A few additional notes for that:

1. Additional dependencies:

   • future

2. Required version of pyFAI is 0.17