Installing Nester

Nester will initially be offered in three ways:

  • Installation using pip from pypi.org

  • Installation as rpm package (coming soon)

  • Building from source

Installation via pip

pip, if you are not aware already, is the Python package manager. You can use it to install a huge variety of python packages stored on PyPi.

Simply run this in your terminal:

pip install nester-struct

pip now installs nester with all its dependencies. That should be it!

Installation as rpm package

–COMING SOON–

Some systems may not initially ship with python3 or pip or you may simply do not want to use pip. For this reason we are planning to offer Nester in a varietly of different Linux packages.

As we are most familiar with the rpm format for openSUSE this is what we will offer first.

We can now offer a .rpm package!

To do so follow these steps (on openSUSE):

  1. Add the repository

sudo zypper addrepo `https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:kodymo/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:kodymo.repo`_
  1. Refresh your repositories

sudo zypper ref
  1. Install Nester

sudo zypper install python3-nester

Note: The repository contains three builds for nester for Python 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11. zypper will automatically decide which version to use when running the command above.

You can visit the repository on the [package maintainer’s OBS account](https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:kodymo/python-nester).

Building from source

Sometimes installing from shady sources may not be your thing. Fear nought! You can also build it from source.

To do that simply clone or download Nester’s GitHub repository enter the nester/ directory and run pip install . to install Nester.

Done!

We hope you have as much fun using Nester as we have building it!