Installation
Python
This package is working on Python version 3.6+.
On Windows, we recommend to install Python through the distribution Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/
On older versions of Windows (before Windows 7), we recommend to install Python manually: https://www.python.org/
On Linux, we recommend to install Python through the apt-get command.
Additional required packages (installed automatically with Autolab):
numpy
pandas
pyvisa
python-vxi11
Autolab package
This project is hosted in the global python repository PyPi at the following address : https://pypi.org/project/autolab/
To install the Autolab python package on your computer, we then advice you to use the Python package manager pip
in a Python environnement:
pip install autolab
If the package is already installed, you can check the current version installed and upgrade it to the last official version with the following commands:
pip show autolab
pip install autolab --upgrade
Import the Autolab package in a Python shell to check that the installation is correct.
>>> import autolab
Packages for the GUI
The GUI requires several packages to work. But depending if you are using Anaconda or not, the installation is different:
With Anaconda:
conda install pyqtgraph
conda install qtpy
conda install pyqt
Without:
pip install pyqtgraph
pip install qtpy
pip install pyqt5
Note that thanks to qtpy, you can install a different qt backend instead of pyqt5 among pyqt6, pyside2 and pyside6
Development version
You can install the latest development version (at your own risk) directly form GitHub:
pip install https://github.com/autolab-project/autolab/archive/master.zip