Installing LifeCycles

Note

Before installing lifecycles, you need to have setuptools installed.

Quick install

Get lifecycles from the Python Package Index at pypl.

or install it with

pip install lifecycles

and an attempt will be made to find and install an appropriate version that matches your operating system and Python version. Please note that lifecycles requires Python>=3.9

You can install the development version with

pip install git+https://github.com/andreafailla/LifeCycles.git

Installing from source

You can install from source by downloading a source archive file (tar.gz or zip) or by checking out the source files from the GitHub source code repository.

lifecycles is a pure Python package; you don’t need a compiler to build or install it.

Source archive file

Download the source (tar.gz or zip file) from pypl or get the latest development version from GitHub

Unpack and change directory to the source directory (it should have the files README.txt and setup.py).

Run python setup.py install to build and install

python setup.py install

Requirements

Python

To use lifecycles you need Python 3.9 or later.

The easiest way to get Python and most optional packages is to install the Enthought Python distribution “Canopy” or using Anaconda. There are several other distributions that contain the key packages you need for scientific computing.