[yt-users] Installation on Windows

[John ZuHone]

Hi Matthew,

Welcome to yt!

If it's a 64-bit Windows machine, you should be able to install yt from the command prompt or Powershell using

conda install yt

If it's a 32-bit machine, it will still work but you will have to download the yt source and install it manually:

1) First, install the yt dependencies using anaconda: 

conda install numpy sympy h5py hdf5 cython matplotlib libpython setuptools mingw ipython

2) Grab the tar.gz file from 

https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/y/yt/yt-3.0.1.tar.gz

3) Unzip it, go into the directory that it creates and type 

python setup.py build --compiler=mingw32 install

Let me know if you have any problems,

Best,

John Z

John ZuHone
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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> On Sep 21, 2014, at 7:25 PM, Matthew Past <mattpast at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to yt, and trying to install it on my Windows 7 PC for a research project I am going to be working on. I have miniconda installed, but I have no idea where to go from there. I am also relatively new to python as well.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
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