Installation¶

Installing GWpy¶

The recommended way of installing GWpy is with Conda:

$ conda install -c conda-forge gwpy

$ python -m pip install gwpy

Supported python versions: 2.7, 3.5+.

$ apt-get install python3-gwpy

Supported python versions: 2.7 (all), 3.5 (Stretch), 3.6 (Buster), click here for instructions on how to add the required repositories.

$ yum install python-gwpy

Supported python versions: 2.7, click here for instructions on how to add the required yum repositories.

GWpy has the following strict requirements:

All of these will be installed using any of the above install methods.

GWpy also depends on the following other packages for optional features:

glue.ligolw: to read/write EventTable with LIGO_LW XML format (see LIGO_LW XML)
LDAStools.frameCPP: to read/write data in GWF format
nds2: to provide remote data access for TimeSeries (see Remote data access)
root_numpy: to read/write EventTable with ROOT format (see ROOT)