QuickStart

Install PyProTem

The easiest way to install PyProTem is:

pip install pyprotem

    OR on Linux
sudo pip install pyprotem
    OR perhaps
pip install --user pyprotem

In case of error, see pip Error Messages

Installation From Source

Much less common, but if installing from source, then the best way to install pyprotem is still pip.

After navigating to the directory holding PyProTem source code, do the following:

cd full/path/to/pyprotem
pip install -e .

    OR on Linux
sudo pip install -e .
    OR perhaps
pip install --user -e .

This will execute the local setup.py file and insure that the pip-specific commands in setup.py are run.

Running PyProTem

After installing with pip, there will be a launch command line program called pyprotem or, on Windows, pyprotem.exe. From a terminal or command prompt window simply type:

pyprotem

and PyProTem will start. If not, then there may be an issue with your system path. The path for the pyprotem executable might be something like:

/usr/local/bin/pyprotem             (if installed with sudo pip install -e .)
     or
/home/<user>/.local/bin/pyprotem    (if installed with pip install -e .)
     or
C:\Python27\Scripts\pyprotem.exe    (on Windows)

Make sure your system path includes the above path to pyprotem.

pip Error Messages

If you get an error message that pip is not found, see https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html for full description of pip installation.

There might be issues with pip failing on Linux with a message like:

InsecurePlatformWarning
        or
Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/

Certain Python platforms (specifically, versions of Python earlier than 2.7.9) have the InsecurePlatformWarning. If you encounter this warning, it is strongly recommended you upgrade to a newer Python version, or that you use pyOpenSSL.

Also pip may be mis-configured and point to the wrong PyPI repository. You need to fix this global problem with pip just to make python usable on your system.

If you give up on upgrading python or fixing pip, you might also try downloading the pyprotem source package (and all dependency source packages) from PyPI and installing from source as shown above at Installation From Source