Recent changes to EPD Installation

WikiPage EPD Installation modified by Richard Murray

Richard Murray — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:52:30 -0000

--- v4
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     * Note: you must install python-control using the EPD version of python in order to have the libraries installed in the proper location.  If you install from the regular command line, you will install in the system python path, but not the EPD python path (which is required to access numpy, scipy and matplotlib).
-    * Note: you must have administrator privileges for the installation to be completed.  Alternatively,
-      set the permissions on the site-packages/ directory to give write access to your user account.
+    * Note: you must have administrator privileges for the installation to be completed.  If you cannot install while logged in as administrator, you can set the permissions on the site-packages/ directory to give write access to your user account (requires sudo privileges).
 
 3. To enable certain advanced functions (MIMO operations, LQR, LQE), you will need to install the slycot libraries.  This requires a fortran compiler such as f77 or gfortran.  For more information, see the [installation page](Installation).

WikiPage EPD Installation modified by Richard Murray

Richard Murray — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:47:28 -0000

--- v3
+++ v4
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
          In [1]: run setup.py install
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+    * Note: you must install python-control using the EPD version of python in order to have the libraries installed in the proper location.  If you install from the regular command line, you will install in the system python path, but not the EPD python path (which is required to access numpy, scipy and matplotlib).
     * Note: you must have administrator privileges for the installation to be completed.  Alternatively,
       set the permissions on the site-packages/ directory to give write access to your user account.

WikiPage EPD Installation modified by Richard Murray

Richard Murray — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:43:47 -0000

--- v2
+++ v3
@@ -19,4 +19,6 @@
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     * Note: you must have administrator privileges for the installation to be completed.  Alternatively,
-      set the permissions on the site-packages/ directory to give write access to your user account
+      set the permissions on the site-packages/ directory to give write access to your user account.
+
+3. To enable certain advanced functions (MIMO operations, LQR, LQE), you will need to install the slycot libraries.  This requires a fortran compiler such as f77 or gfortran.  For more information, see the [installation page](Installation).

WikiPage EPD Installation modified by Richard Murray

Richard Murray — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:40:47 -0000

--- v1
+++ v2
@@ -10,12 +10,13 @@
 
 2. Download and install the latest version of control-python, the control systems toolbox for python
 
-    * Download .tar.gz file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-control
+    * Download control-0.5a.tar.gz file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-control
     * Decompress using 'tar zxf control-0.5a.tgz' (or whatever the latest version is)
     * Run EPD python, cd to location of python-control distribution, and run
 
-          :::python
-          run setup.py install
+         ~~~~~~
+         In [1]: run setup.py install
+         ~~~~~~
 
     * Note: you must have administrator privileges for the installation to be completed.  Alternatively,
       set the permissions on the site-packages/ directory to give write access to your user account

WikiPage EPD Installation modified by Richard Murray

Richard Murray — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:37:22 -0000

Installation using EPD 7.3 -------------------------- (The following instructions are for MacOS 10.8, but should work similarly for other operating systems) 1. Download and install the Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) * Download from http://www.enthought.com/products/edudownload.php * Double click installer and follow directions (requires administrator permissions) * EPD contains numpy, scipy, matplotlib and ipython 2. Download and install the latest version of control-python, the control systems toolbox for python * Download .tar.gz file from http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-control * Decompress using 'tar zxf control-0.5a.tgz' (or whatever the latest version is) * Run EPD python, cd to location of python-control distribution, and run :::python run setup.py install * Note: you must have administrator privileges for the installation to be completed. Alternatively, set the permissions on the site-packages/ directory to give write access to your user account