Installing Excentury

There is more than one way to install Excentury.

The Easy Way

The easiest way to install Excentury is to use pip. If you wish to perform a global installation and you have admin rights then do

sudo pip install excentury

or to install in some directory under your user account

pip install --user excentury

Installing on *nix Systems

From the command line do the following (where x.y is the version number):

wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/e/excentury/excentury-x.y.tar.gz
tar xvzf excentury-x.y.tar.gz
cd excentury-x.y/
sudo python3 setup.py install

The last command can be replaced by python3 setup.py install --user. See PyPI for all available versions.

Excentury executable

To be able to call excentury from the command line you must have the executable directory in your $PATH. This can be taken care of my calling the install command in excentury. Since the executable is not yet available you will have to call the excentury script from python.

python3 -m excentury install

This will print several messages describing some paths. To verify that excentury is now in your path you can try the help option

excentury -h

The install command also takes care of the C and C++ include paths. This will make sure that you can access the C++ libraries as well as the MATLAB libraries.