Development Stack Installation

Written by Aric Sanders, 01/2016

OS

  1. Primary OS was Windows 7 64 Bit
  2. Pieces were tested on Ubuntu 14.04

Git Installation

  1. Download and install Git
    • Git is a version control program
    • Github and bitbucket are good places to put repositories

Python Base Installation

  1. Install Anaconda
    • Use the python 2.7 installer
    • This installs a large number of packages
    • Includes Jupyter, which is a mathematica style notebook for python.
    • A good overview of jupyter's capability can be found here
    • in ubuntu down load the Anaconda package, from the directory run bash Anaconda....sh
  2. Install PyCharm, Communtity Edition is free
    • Pycharm is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for python
    • It integrates very well with git, and it includes very good tools for working with code, if you install git first it will autodetect it.
    • Requires OpenJDK to be installed. The ubuntu command is sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre or JRE ( Windows ) to be installed.

Python Package Installation

For python packages using pip

\$ pip install package, in ubuntu make sure you are a superuser, i.e. sudo

or in python code

import os
    os.system(r'pip install pyvisa')
  1. Install Pdoc
    • pdoc makes an html page given an import-able module
    • pdoc.html('os') or a text version pdoc.text('os')
  2. Install NIVisa
    • NIVISA requires regstration but is free
    • It allows communication through several methods including GPIB
    • This is not a python package but you need it for pyvisa, pyvisa-py looks to be a potential alternative.
  3. Install pyvisa
  4. Install Django
  5. Install WxPython, not pip but there are prebuilt binaries
  6. Install odo, pip install has errors on ubuntu.
  7. Install django-registration and change registration/forms.py to include first_name and last_name on the user form
    • at a command prompt: pip install django-registration
  8. Install django-bootstrap-breadcrumbs
    • at a command prompt: pip install django-bootstrap-breadcrumbs
  9. Install markdown
    • at a command prompt: pip install markdown

  10. Install Boa Constructor for Wx FrontEnds creations now I have a github repository for this (https://github.com/aricsanders/boa).

    • choose boa-constructor-0.6.1.src.zip from the download page, the binary installers do not work if python is installed under the anaconda directory

    • There some problems with the source code that must be fixed:

      • All references to wx.NO_3D must be removed (I commented them out)

        1. in prefs.rc.py
          • splitterStyle = wx.SP_LIVE_UPDATE | wx.SP_3DSASH
          • #removed option | wx.NO_3D,03/02/2016 Aric Sanders
        2. in enumerations.py
          • windowNameStyles
          • #removed the option 'wx.NO_3D':wx.NO_3D, 03/02/2016 Aric Sanders
          • windowStyles
          • #removed the window style wx.NO_3D, 03/02/2016 Aric Sanders
        3. in Inspector.py
          • self.categories
          • #removed the style wx.NO_3D | on 03/02/2016 Aric Sanders
        • Because you unzipped the file into something like C:\python27\Lib\site-packages\boa-constructor-0.6.1, you have to make a new folder Boa and add an init.py file to it.
        • Now there are a lot of things improperly namespaced assuming that you will add an enviornmental variable to help it out. I renamspaced them to Boa.

  11. Install pythonnet This allows python to use .net assemblies

    • pip install pythonnet

  12. Install Jpype, pip install JPype1

  13. Install pdfkit, pip install pdfkit, requires wkhtmltopdf

Inkscape Installation

  1. Download and install Inkscape
    • Inkscape is a svg (scalable vector graphics) editor
    • In ubuntu use sudo apt-get install inkscape at a terminal

Open Office Installation

  1. Download and install open office
    • Open office can be scripted through pyuno to convert many formats
    • This is really optional, any office suite with html conversion will work
    • Ultimately the idea is to use unoconv

Visual Studios

  1. Download and Install Visual Studio Community , this is optional and used primarily for inspecting the source code of StatistiCAL and MUF.

Notepad ++

  1. Download and Install Notepad++, this is optional but helps when you need to view random files.

StatistiCAL and MUF

  1. Download and Install StatistiCAL and MUF
    • for calibration and uncertainty analysis for multi-port RF measurements
    • currently only for windows, but may work with Mono
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