======================== Obtaining and Installing ======================== Requirements ============ ATpy requires the following: - `Python `_ 2.6 or later - `Numpy `_ 1.5 or later - `Astropy `_ 0.2 or later The following packages are optional, but are required to read/write to certain formats: - `h5py `_ 1.3.0 or later (for HDF5 tables) - `MySQL-python `_ 1.2.2 or later (for MySQL tables) - `PyGreSQL `_ 3.8.1 or later (for PostGreSQL tables) Stable version ============== The latest stable release of ATpy can be downloaded from `PyPI `_. To install ATpy, use the standard installation procedure:: tar xvzf ATpy-X-X.X.tar.gz cd ATpy-X.X.X/ python setup.py install Developer version ================= Advanced users wishing to use the latest development ("unstable") version can check it out with:: git clone git://github.com/atpy/atpy.git which can then be installed with:: cd atpy python setup.py install