Linux install from source instructions¶
- Open a new terminal window (in many distros you can right click on the desktop and select or ).
- Download Miniconda Python (Python 3.7) distribution and install.
- https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html
- Make sure you chose the python 3.7 installer.
- Save to the downloads folder
- Open a terminal and run the following commands:
cd ~/Downloads
bash ./Miniconda3-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
conda upgrade conda pip wheel setuptools
conda install numpy scipy 'matplotlib<3.2' pillow 'wxpython<4.1' numba h5py cython numexpr
conda install -c conda-forge dbus-python
pip install silx fabio pyFAI hdf5plugin
or ). - Download RAW source code from sourceforge
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/bioxtasraw/files
- Go to the linked website and download the
RAW-x.y.z-Source.zip
file, wherex.y.z
is the version number (for example, 1.0.0).
- 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.