Advanced installation options

See Section Installation for standard installation instructions.

Repository installation

The code base for Parsim is hosted at gitlab.com. First clone the git repository in an appropriate location:

git clone https://olwi@gitlab.com/olwi/psm.git psm

Even if you use conda as your package manager, it is easiest to use pip for installing an editable development version of parsim. However, do this in a special conda enviroment! Once you have used pip in the conda installation, it may be difficult for conda to update other packages without dependency conflicts.

In your development python environment, enter the working copy of the source repository and use pip to install parsim in editable development mode:

cd psm
pip install -e .

Updating an existing installation

If you upgrade and existing installation with pip install --upgrade, it is recommended to do it without upgrading dependencies, unless it is required. This is to avoid triggering an upgrade of NumPy and SciPy, which could break your installation.

Do the upgrade in two steps. First upgrade parsim, but not dependencies:

pip install --upgrade --no-deps parsim

Then update whatever requirements are not already fulfilled:

pip install parsim

The two-step process for upgrading a repository installation is analogous.