Installation guide

Dependencies

Using the G-Node Client requires some other python packages to be installed:

• neo A package for representing electrophysiology data in Python
• quantities Arithmetic conversions of physical quantities
• odml Open metadata markup language
• appdirs Get appropriate platform-specific user dirs
• request-futures Asynchronous Python HTTP Request
• h5py HDF5 for Python

In order to build the documentation and install the package using setup.py the following packages are recommended.

• sphinx
• setuptools

All dependencies with the exception of the python odml package, can be installed using easy_install. On debian bases linux distributions one install packages for quantities (python-quantities), neo (python-neo), sphinx (python-sphinx), setuptools (python-setuptools) and h5py (python-h5py) using the package manager (apt-get, aptitude).

To install the odml package use the following commands, with appropriate permissions (e.g. with sudo for the last command).

git clone https://github.com/G-Node/python-odml.git
cd python-odml
python setup.py install

Install

To install the client invoke the following commands using appropriate permissions.

git clone https://github.com/G-Node/python-gnode-client.git
cd python-gnode-client
python setup.py install