Build Instructions for Linux (Ubuntu)

The following instructions concern Ubuntu 14.04 but should provide sufficient guidelines for any linux distribution.

Download source code for SasView

• To obtain the source code you need to have git running. if you haven't already got it, it can be obtained from Ubuntu repository

  sudo apt-get install git
  

• The easy way to download SasView code is by simply cloning a git repository

  git clone https://github.com/SasView/sasview
  

• This will create a sasview folder in your current directory

Install dependencies using apt-get

• Scientific python packages (numpy, scipy) together with matplotlib, pylint and wxgtk2.8 can be installed by running

  sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib pylint python-wxgtk2.8
  

• For wxgtk3.0 read "Build instructions" at ​http://www.wxpython.org

Install pip

• The remaining dependencies can be installed using pip, which can be obtained by running the following:

  wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
  sudo python get-pip.py
  

Install dependencies using pip

• Once pip is obtained the remaining dependencies are installed by:

  sudo pip install unittest-xml-reporting
  sudo pip install bumps
  sudo pip install periodictable
  sudo pip install sphinx
  

Compile SasView

• Then one can navigate to a SasView source directory (most likely "cd sasview") and simply run

  python setup.py build      # will build the package underneath 'build/'
  python setup.py install    # will install the package
  

• sudo commnand might be required for a global installation

Building the Help Docs

The process for building the help docs has been steadily evolving. The latest instructions might be found here