General instructions for installing from source (advanced users)¶
- Install python 3.X (if it isn’t already installed), RAW is tested on 3.7 and 3.8.
- Install python3 development tools and gcc (if they are not already installed).
- 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
- Download RAW source code from sourceforge ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/bioxtasraw/files)
- Extract RAW to a directory of your choice.
- In the top level RAW directory run
python setup.py build_ext --inplace
to build the extensions. - In the
bioxtasraw
subdirectory runRAW.py
using python. - 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:
- Additional dependencies:
- future
- Required version of pyFAI is 0.17