Installing DryMass

DryMass is written in pure Python and supports Python version 3.6 and later. DryMass depends on several other scientific Python packages, including:

To install DryMass, use one of the following methods (package dependencies will be installed automatically):

  • from PyPI:
    pip install drymass
  • from sources:
    pip install . or python setup.py install

Upgrade

If you have installed an older version of DryMass and wish to upgrade to the latest version, use

pip uninstall drymass followed by

pip install drymass.

If you wish to install a specific version of DryMass (e.g. 0.3.0), use

pip install 'drymass==0.3.0'.

Known issues

  • If you try to install from PyPI and get an error message similar to

    “Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement drymass (from versions: )
    No matching distribution found for drymass”,

    please make sure that you are using Python version 3.6 or later with python --version. If that is already the case, please run pip -vvv install drymass and create an issue with the error messages (e.g. as a screenshot) that you get.

  • If you are using Windows and the installation fails because scikit-image cannot be installed, e.g.

    ” Rolling back uninstall of scikit-image
    Command python.exe […] –compile failed with error code 1 in […]/scikit-image”,

    and you are using the Anaconda Python distribution, please install scikit-image via conda install scikit-image. If you are not using Anaconda, you can install one of the wheels provided by Christoph Gohlke (download e.g. “scikit_image‑0.14.0‑cp36‑cp35m‑win_amd64.whl” if you have installed the 64bit version of Python 3.6, navigate to the download directory and run pip install scikit_image‑0.14.0‑cp35‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl).