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Description

PyAChemKit is a Python implementation of an Artificial Chemistry Kit - a library and collection of tools.

Artificial Chemsistry (AChem) is a spin-off topic of Artificial Life. AChem is aimed at emergence of life from non-living environment - primordial soup etc.

Installation

To install on Unix/Linux, run

System Message: WARNING/2 (/home/adam/Dropbox/PyAChemKit/doc/src/README.rst, line 19)

Literal block expected; none found.

sudo python setup.py install

This package should work on windows, but is untested.

This package requires the following:

Optionally, the following can be installed to improve performance:

Source

Source code is available from https://github.com/afaulconbridge/PyAChemKit

The source code additionally requires the following:

For a Debian-based Linux distrbution — e.g. Debian, Ubuntu — these can be installed / updated with:

make setup

(Note, LaTeX is not installed via this method because it is very large. Run sudo apt-get install texlive-full)

There is a makefile that will run some useful tasks for you (generate documentation, test, benchmark). This can be accessed by running the following command:

make help

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