1. Installation¶

1.1. Requirements¶

First, install Python and pip. The following command illustrates how to install Python and pip on Ubuntu Linux:

apt-get install python python-pip

Second, optionally install pandoc to convert Markdown-formatted README files for GitHub into reStructuredText-formatted files for PyPI:

apt-get install pandoc

Use the following command to install this package from PyPI:

pip install pkg_utils

The latest version of this package can be installed from GitHub using this command:

pip install git+https://github.com/KarrLab/pkg_utils.git#egg=pkg_utils

Support for the pandoc can be installed using the following option:

pip install pkg_utils[pandoc]
pip install git+https://github.com/KarrLab/pkg_utils.git#egg=pkg_utils[pandoc]