From 072c9945c4c86bd66c66927d3a2b193f4ce86aed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Wimmer <wimmer@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:52:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] updated Windows installation instructions
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1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/content/install.txt b/content/install.txt
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--- a/content/install.txt
+++ b/content/install.txt
@@ -36,16 +36,47 @@ provided by Christoph Gohlke. To install Kwant on Windows
64-bit) from the official `Python download site
<http://www.python.org/download/>`_.
-3. Download and install ``scipy-stack``, ``tinyarray``, and ``kwant`` for Python
- 2.7 from `Christoph Gohlke's page
- <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/>`_. Once again you should choose
- the architecture that is appropriate for your system. ("win32" means 32-bit,
- "amd64" means 64-bit -- even if you have a processor from Intel.) If the
- download from Gohlke's site is slow, try to download from `our mirror
- <http://downloads.kwant-project.org/gohlke-mirror/>`_.
-
- You may see a warning that says "The publisher could not be verified. Do you
- want to run this software?". Select "Run".
+3. Open a command prompt, as described in "How do I get a command prompt" at
+ the `Microsoft Windows website <http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/command-prompt-faq>`_.
+
+4. In the command prompt window, execute::
+
+ C:\Python27\python.exe C:\Python27\Tools\Scripts\win_add2path.py
+
+ (Instead of typing this command, you can also just copy it from here and
+ paste it into the command prompt window). If you did not use the default
+ location to install python in step 2, then replace ``C:\Python27`` by the
+ actual location where python is installed.
+
+5. Reboot your computer
+
+6. Now open a command prompt with administrator rights, as described in
+ "How do I run a command with elevated permissions" at the
+ `Microsoft Windows website <http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/command-prompt-faq>`_.
+
+ In this new command prompt window, execute::
+
+ pip install -U pip
+ pip install pyreadline
+ pip install --find-links http://downloads.kwant-project.org/gohlke-mirror/ ^
+ --trusted-host downloads.kwant-project.org --no-index numpy scipy ^
+ matplotlib ipython tornado pyzmq jinja2 nose tinyarray kwant
+
+ Now you are done!
+
+If you want to run ipython notebook, open a command prompt (no need for
+Adminstrator rights this time), and type::
+
+ ipython notebook
+
+If you wish to install later other python packages form the website of
+`Christoph Gohlke <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/>`_, download
+the package (with the ending ``.whl``) for your operating system (32 or 64 bit)
+and install it from a command prompt as::
+
+ pip install filename
+
+where filename is the name of the downloaded file.
Ubuntu and derivatives
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