QuickStart¶
Verify tkinter Installed¶
In Theory tkinter is included with all standard Python distributions. (In practice, it might not be included.) It’s almost certainly there on a Windows machine, however, on Linux you might have to try:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-tk
sudo apt-get install python3-tk
In order to get tkinter/Tkinter for python 2 & 3.
You can test the installation from a terminal window with:
>>> import Tkinter # python2
>>> Tkinter._test() # python2
>>> import tkinter # python3
>>> tkinter._test() # python3
This should pop up a small test window.
Install DigiPlot¶
The easiest way to install DigiPlot is:
pip install digiplot
OR on Linux
sudo pip install digiplot
OR perhaps
pip install --user digiplot
In case of error, see pip Error Messages
Installation From Source¶
Much less common, but if installing from source, then
the best way to install digiplot is still pip
.
After navigating to the directory holding DigiPlot source code, do the following:
cd full/path/to/digiplot
pip install -e .
OR on Linux
sudo pip install -e .
OR perhaps
pip install --user -e .
This will execute the local setup.py
file and insure that the pip-specific commands in setup.py
are run.
Running DigiPlot¶
After installing with pip
, there will be a launch command line program called digiplot or, on Windows, digiplot.exe. From a terminal or command prompt window simply type:
digiplot
and DigiPlot will start. If not, then there may be an issue with your system path. The path for the digiplot executable might be something like:
/usr/local/bin/digiplot (if installed with sudo pip install -e .)
or
/home/<user>/.local/bin/digiplot (if installed with pip install -e .)
or
C:\Python27\Scripts\digiplot.exe (on Windows)
Make sure your system path includes the above path to digiplot.
pip Error Messages¶
If you get an error message that pip
is not found, see https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.html for full description of pip
installation.
There might be issues with pip
failing on Linux with a message like:
InsecurePlatformWarning
or
Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/
Certain Python platforms (specifically, versions of Python earlier than 2.7.9) have the InsecurePlatformWarning. If you encounter this warning, it is strongly recommended you upgrade to a newer Python version, or that you use pyOpenSSL.
Also pip
may be mis-configured and point to the wrong PyPI repository.
You need to fix this global problem with pip
just to make python usable on your system.
If you give up on upgrading python or fixing pip
,
you might also try downloading the digiplot source package
(and all dependency source packages)
from PyPI and installing from source as shown above at Installation From Source