Installation

yafe requires the following packages:

Optionnaly, xarray >= 0.10 is needed to be able to load the results as labeled arrays with the method load_results().

Make sure your Python environment is properly configured. It is recommended to install yafe in a virtual environment.

Release version

First, make sure you have the latest version of pip (the Python package manager) installed. If you do not, refer to the Pip documentation and install pip first.

Install the current release with pip:

pip install yafe

To upgrade to a newer release use the --upgrade flag:

pip install --upgrade yafe

If you do not have permission to install software systemwide, you can install into your user directory using the --user flag:

pip install --user yafe

Alternatively, you can manually download yafe from its GitLab project or PyPI. To install one of these versions, unpack it and run the following from the top-level source directory using the Terminal:

pip install .

The yafe package uses a configuration file to specify some default paths. To learn how to create this file before using yafe, see the corresponding section yafe configuration file.

Development version

If you have Git installed on your system, it is also possible to install the development version of yafe.

Before installing the development version, you may need to uninstall the standard version of yafe using pip:

pip uninstall yafe

Clone the Git repository:

git clone git@gitlab.lis-lab.fr:skmad-suite/yafe.git
cd yafe

You may also need to install required packages:

pip install -r requirements/defaults.txt

Then execute pip with flag -e to follow the development branch:

pip install -e .

To update yafe at any time, in the same directory do:

git pull

To run unitary tests, first install required packages:

pip install -r requirements/dev.txt

and execute pytest:

pytest