Linux install from source instructions¶
Tested on: Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18.3, Debian 9.4, Scientific Linux 6.8 7.4 (which should be equivalent to Redhat and CentOS), and OpenSUSE Leap 42.3.
Open a new terminal window (in many distros you can right click on the desktop and select
or ).Download Miniconda Python (Python 2.7) distribution and install.
- http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html
- Make sure you chose the python 2.7 installer.
- Save to the downloads folder
- Open a terminal and run the following commands:
cd ~/Downloads
bash ./Miniconda2-version.sh
(where-version
which will depend on the version you download)
- Accept the default installation location.
- At the end, say “yes” to have the conda python install put in your system path.
- Close the terminal window.
Install python packages. Open a new terminal window and run the following commands (in many distros you can right click on the desktop and select
or ).conda upgrade conda pip wheel setuptools
conda install numpy scipy matplotlib pillow wxpython numba h5py lxml cython numexpr
pip install silx fabio "pyFAI<0.16" hdf5plugin
Download RAW from sourceforge
- The download button on the main page should default to the right download for your OS.
Expand the RAW download to your location of choice.
- We suggest
~/raw
- Make sure there are no spaces in the file path (you can check by navigating
to the raw directory in a terminal window and using
pwd
). - In the terminal or in the graphical file manager, confirm that the file named
setup.py
is in your raw directory. If it isn’t, it’s likely that when you expanded the RAW download, you ended up with unnecessary layers of directories. Find the directory withsetup.py
in it, and make that the top level folder.
- We suggest
In a terminal, change directory into the top level RAW folder
- If you used the suggested path of
~/raw
type:cd ~/raw
- If you used the suggested path of
Build the extensions.
python setup.py build_ext --inplace
Navigate to the
bioxtasraw
subfolder- From the top level RAW folder it should be
cd ./bioxtasraw
- From the top level RAW folder it should be
Run RAW
python RAW.py
RAW is now installed. Enjoy!
- If you want, see the section on making a desktop shortcut for RAW.
- If RAW doesn’t work, check out the solutions to common problems.