I need to install SDAPS, an Open Source OMR program, see here http://sdaps.org/SDAPS. It uses LaTeX and Python.
I have no idea if I can install it on XAMPP? Or do I need a Linux OS distribution?
They write here: http://sdaps.org/Documentation/Dependencies about the Dependencies. How can I install those dependencies?
Thanks.
If you are working on Debian Linux is as easy as sudo apt-get install sdaps. If you had read the SDAPS download site you would have known that:
Windows
There is no windows version for SDAPS. In theory it should be possible
to get it running, but getting all the dependencies to work will be a
big task.
It is likely much simpler to install a GNU/Linux distribution on the
computer or inside a virtual machine.
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I am having problems installing python-tesseract on Ubuntu systems.
I've tried with several versions of Ubuntu systems of 32 bits from 14.04 onwards and I got nothing. I downloaded python-tesseract_0.9-0.5ubuntu2_i386.deb and tried to install it but dependency problems show up, and after installing the needed packages, these problems does not disappear.
How can I install python-tesseract on Ubuntu 14.04 or 15.10? Thanks
Edit: I am developing an optical character recognition application on python, and I need to access to the lot of functions that tesseract TessBaseAPI gives. I found several wrappers of tesseract for python, but python-tesseract (I have understood that is not the same that pytesseract) is the only one that allows access to all functions, and not only to a few. I downloaded a python-tesseract.deb file, but the problems described above arise.
It works installing gdebi-core first, and afterwards installing the .deb package with it, so that gdebi install dependencies for me. I used Ubuntu 14.04.
sudo apt-get install gdebi-core
sudo gdebi python-tesseract_0.9-0.5ubuntu2_i386.deb
tesseract has been available in the "universe" repository since at least 2012, I suggest you install the tesseract-ocr package with apt-get. Test to make sure the tesseract command is working.
Then if the deb isn't working for you, do a pip install. Be sure to carefully follow the instructions in the pypi package
I've downloaded python libraries (tar.gz) from external links. How to use these libraries, I mean in which directory under the python should I unzip such libraries.
How to use downloaded libraries with python when we are using:
windows 7
Ubuntu
Also how to install these libraries without using pip in Linux? Do we have to set path in windows7 to use the libraries?
Guys better to post comments then to give negative points. With your suggestion I can modify my post. I dont think you to be smart guy by rating negative points in any comments.
For Linux based systems (e.g., Ubuntu):
$ tar xzf package.tar.gz
$ cd package
$ python setup.py install
Also, look input pip https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip
On Windows and Linux, all you need to do is unzip the archive somewhere, cd into and run the following command as administrator (usually by running cmd.exe as Administrator on Windows or by using sudo on Linux):
python setup.py install
If the package does not have a setup.py, it can get tricky. Most of the time the package just needs to be copied into your Python's site-packages folder.
You will find some packages that need to be built. On Linux, you can usually do this pretty easily. On Windows, you will need the appropriate compiler, usually a free version of Visual Studio will do, although you have to make sure you get the correct version of Visual Studio. I've heard reports that you can also use MingW.
I have installed scipy and numpy, and they are being used with my current, desired version of python 2.7.6 (I am running on OSX Mavericks and had to upgrade.) However, when I pip installed matplotlib, by default it referenced my previous python version, 2.7.5, thus making it troublesome to use (obviously.)
How do I change which version of python matplotlib uses so I can import and use the library?
Thanks.
The way I would solve this problem is like this, firstly one would need to go into your 2.7.6 directory, and under the Scripts folder you will find the pip executable. My suggestion is (because its difficult to debug this kind of people without having all the details) is this:
./pip install matplotlib
And see if this succeeds, otherwise, I suggest using pyenv to manage your python installations.
I suggest you use Macports for installing additional Python versions on OS X. Once Macports is installed, it's fairly easy to install Python 2.7.6. All you'd have to do is:
sudo port install python27
Now, you should be able to get all the libraries you need just as easily, using, too, Macports.
sudo port install py27-numpy
sudo port install py27-scipy
sudo port install py27-matplotlib
Macports should solve all the dependencies and, of course, link the packages to their correct Python versions, avoiding you a lot of headaches.
For a step by step guide on how to set up a nice, functional Python environment, visit: http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/02/02/setting-up-a-mac-for-python-development/
I was trying to setup Django dev environment on Mac and arrived into a hell. It all started when trying to install PIL, which failed after trying 15 or so different recipes I found on blogs. So I wanted to install the Python, this time 2.7, and reinstall setuptools, easy_install, pip from scratch.
After just installing Python 2.7, and easy_install with setuptools for 2.7, this all in turn created such a mess that is unbelievable. Different version of Python are installed everywhere, easy_install is installed everywhere and points randomly to different python hashbangs (sometimes to #!/usr/bin, #!/usr/local/, #!/Library/...)
Now I can't even do easy_install pip, which I always could. So I'm already in a hell and I haven't even attempted to install MySQL yet.
My question finally is did anyone bump into such problems, it would help enough to know that I'm not alone.
Second, would it be easier to set up the entire environment on Ubuntu than it is on a Mac?
Thirdly, is there any guide that can really clearly explain how to set up but also tear down the stack for Python development on a Mac?
It wouldn't hurt to run a VM with vagrant. This post should tell you more:
http://stevelosh.com/blog/2011/06/django-advice/
Of course using virtualenv should also help alleviate some of these issues.
I've gone through the same hell 2 weeks ago :)
I needed to make working python 2.7 and virtualenv on OSX 10.6.8.
You haven't mentioned virtualenv in your question but I strongly recommend it. That way you minimize amount of globally installed packages. Everything is... cleaner.
My idea is to only have following things globally:
python (from brew)
pip (via easy_install)
virtualenv (via pip)
virtualenvwrapper (via pip)
other through either virtualenv or buildout
I've just checked and pip PIL installs fine within my virtualenv.
Here are notes from this battle (gist.github.com):
#NOTE: .pydistutils.cfg seems to be not compatible with brew install python
#areas I needed to clean before installation
#clean up ~/Library/Python
#clean up .local
brew install python
easy_install pip
pip install virtualenv
pip install virtualenvwrapper
mkdir $HOME/.virtualenvs
Example .bash_profile:
#homebrew
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:${PATH}
# homebrew python 2.7
export PATH="/usr/local/share/python:${PATH}"
#virtualenv wrapper
export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
source /usr/local/share/python/virtualenvwrapper.sh
Good luck!
Second, would it be easier to set up
the entire environment on Ubuntu than
it is on a Mac?
To answer this question (though I never used Mac though): I never had problems setting up a python environment for Django development on Ubuntu. Though in any case you should go with the built-in Python version if possible. Attempting to install any other Python versions usually ends up messy. Luckily with Ubuntu 11.04 the standard version is already 2.7.
I'm using django development environment on a MAC OS X 10.8 with python 2.7. I don't use virtualenv ore some other things.
With all the respect can say that there is NO ANY PROBLEMS to develop on a mac. Mac is a UNIX like system and you've probably seen that all tools for developers have MAC ports.
As for the setup mess. It's a good idea to use virtualenv. As for PIL installation. I needed to compile it with TrueType. As I'm in common with UNIX like environments it was not heavy task for me to compile PIL from sources using GCC (it's already installed on a MAC)... There are some mess with Django to setup virtualenv... There are certainly lots of articles to setup it on Google.
I use Eclipse and write all my PYTHONPATH variables there. You can forget installing everything like in Linux and try not to make anymore mess with installed tools. Try to read THIS article if you feel like you're ok to use Eclipse for your development on a MAC. It also has a recipe to avoid mess with installation of many copies of Python and other dev utils.
Yes I have had problems with MacOS. I think rather than trying to figure it out I just switched to Ubuntu. I use a mac with Ubuntu installed in VMware Fusion. I have developed on both and prefer the Ubuntu because I'm just more comfortable with installing packages and the file structure.
I love using the VM because I'm never scared of having to start over. I can get a whole new OS installed and get the packages with what I use in just a few hours. Not to mention with 6month rollouts I can do complete installs of new versions instead of updates.
Depending on your production environment, it may be beneficial to use an OS that is similar, if you can install a package on ubuntu desktop, you already know how to do it on ubuntu server.
I noticed that Twisted has a dependency on Zope. I found that when I tried to install Zope, after running, ./configure it tells me I need to use python2.4 (not python 2.5+ which I would like to be using).
However, I have seen some tutorials and guides that suggested using python 2.5 for Twisted. So I'm just generally confused. Has anyone set this up and ran some of the twsited web examples that use zope? What version of python did you use? Was there an installation guide you followed somewhere?
Twisted doesn't have a dependency on full zope. It's just zope.interface, which is a small pure-python module packaged separately from all zope.
You can download the .tar.gz version and run the usual python setup.py install, that should work. Or if your operational system includes a package management system, you could check it for a easy-to-install package. Example, in debian/ubuntu you could do:
apt-get install python-zopeinterface
or even
apt-get install python-twisted
directly.
If you install twisted with pip install or easy_install it will download and install zope.install for you as well.