Installing Dallinger with Anaconda

If you are interested in Dallinger and use Anaconda, you’ll need to adapt the standard installation instructions slightly.

Install python

conda install python

Install psycopg2

In order to get the correct bindings, you need to install psycopg2 before installing Dallinger.

conda install psycopg2
conda install Dallinger[data]

The [data] optional extra makes sure that all the data analysis dependencies are installed.

Set up a virtual environment

If you are using Anaconda, ignore this virtualenv section; use conda to create your virtual environment. Or, see the special Anaconda installation instructions.

Confirm Dallinger works

Now, we need to make sure that Dallinger and Anaconda play nice with one another. At this point, we’d check to make sure that Dallinger is properly installed by typing

dallinger --version

into the command line. You may get a long error message. Don’t panic! Add the following to your .bash_profile:

export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/anaconda/lib/:$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH

After you source your .bash_profile, you can check your Dallinger version (using the same command that we used earlier), which should return the Dallinger version that you’ve installed.