Mac OS X installation

Requirements

1. Install XCode

xcode-select --install

2. Install homebrew -- see: http://brew.sh/

3. Install XQuartz -- see: https://www.xquartz.org/

XQartz is needed for plotting functions

4. If not yet available, install git, python, pip and, optionally, virtualenv

brew install python
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install virtualenv

brew install plotutils --with-X11

Install Biskit system-wide

5. Fetch biskit from github and install dependencies

git clone https://github.com/graik/biskit.git biskit
pip install -r biskit/requirements_extended.txt

6.a) install Biskit system-wide

pip install -e biskit

6.b) or use checked out copy of Biskit right where it is by adding it to the PYTHONPATH variable

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:`pwd`/biskit

Put a line like this into your .bashrc or .zshrc file, depending what shell you are using. Replace `pwd` by the folder containing the biskit project.7

Test your Biskit installation

cd biskit/Biskit
python test.py -e exe pvm