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Installation
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Find below instructions for either 'quick and dirty' way or a neater way of
installing emgfit. The second approach is intended for more advanced users
that want to keep their Python setup cleaner by using virtual environments.

The quick and dirty way
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All emgfit versions >= 0.2.0 are available as pip install from PyPI.

0. Ensure that Python3 and its package installer pip are available on your
   system and have been added to your `PATH` (pip comes pre-installed with most
   Python distributions).
1. Use your command line to download and install emgfit from PyPI by
   running::

     $ pip install --upgrade emgfit

  The latest version of the package and all its dependencies should now be
  installed under your Python directory in `/Lib/site-packages`. If you want to
  install a specific emgfit version `x.y.z` run ``$ pip install emgfit==x.y.z``.

2. To test whether the installation succeeded and if you got the correct version
   open Python from your command line and run::

    $ python
    $ import emgfit
    $ print(emgfit.__version__)

   If this doesn't raise any errors you're good to go with emgfit!

The neater way: Installing emgfit into a virtual environment
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Find instructions for both conda and pip users below.

For pip users:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

0. Ensure that Python3 and its package installer pip are available on your
   system and have been added to your `PATH` (pip comes pre-installed with most
   Python distributions).
1. Set up a new virtual environment for `emgfit` to live in. To do so, use your
   command line to navigate to the folder in which you would like to set up the
   virtual environment and run the following::

    $ pip install virtualenv
    $ python -m venv emgfit-env

2. Activate the new `emgfit-env` environment. The command for this depends on
   your platform.

   Windows users run::

    $ emgfit-env\Scripts\activate.bat

   Linux users run::

    $ source emgfit-env/bin/activate

3. Now you are inside your virtual environment and can install `emgfit`.
   Download and install emgfit by running::

     (emgfit-env) $ pip install --upgrade emgfit

  The latest version of the package and all its dependencies should now be
  installed inside your virtual environment `emgfit-env` under
  `/Lib/site-packages`. If you want to install a specific emgfit version `x.y.z`
  run ``$ pip install emgfit==x.y.z``.

4. To test whether the installation succeeded and if you got the correct version
   open Python from your command line (after activating `emgfit-env`!) and run::

     (emgfit-env) $ python
     (emgfit-env) $ import emgfit
     (emgfit-env) $ print(emgfit.__version__)

   If this doesn't raise any errors you're good to go with emgfit!

For conda users:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

0. Ensure that Python3 and its package installer pip are available on your
   system and have been added to your `PATH` (pip comes pre-installed with most
   Python distributions including Anaconda).
1. Set up a new virtual environment for `emgfit` to live in by running the
   following in your command line::

    $ conda create -n emgfit-env python=3.7

2. Activate the conda environment::

    (emgfit-env) $ conda activate emgfit-env

3. Now you are inside your virtual environment and can install `emgfit`.
   Download and install emgfit by running::

     (emgfit-env) $ pip install --upgrade emgfit

   The latest version of the package and all its dependencies should now be
   installed inside your virtual environment `emgfit-env` under
   `/Lib/site-packages`. If you want to install a specific emgfit version `x.y.z`
   run ``$ pip install emgfit==x.y.z``.

4. To test whether the installation succeeded and if you got the correct version
   open Python from your command line and run::

     (emgfit-env) $ python
     (emgfit-env) $ import emgfit
     (emgfit-env) $ print(emgfit.__version__)

   If this doesn't raise any errors you're good to go with emgfit!

Launching Jupyter notebook
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To start working with emgfit, start up the Jupyter notebook server using the
following command::

    $ jupyter notebook

**Users that installed emgfit into a virtual environment must first activate
their emgfit environment (see step 2 above) before running this command.**

This will make a window pop up in your default browser. In there, you can
navigate to different directories and create new notebooks (using the `new`
panel on the top right) or open existing ones. Make sure that you use the
default kernel (usually called `Python3`). Once you have imported the `emgfit`
package you should be ready to analyze some data.