Informatique / Python / Installing Minconda Python 2.7 with Mayavi 4.5.0 on MacOS Sierra
Download the miniconda (Python 2.7, 64-bit) installer on https://conda.io/miniconda.html or directly
from this (official) link Miniconda2-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh.
Here are the commands for downloading and starting installation:
bash Miniconda2-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh
Here is part of the output of the install process where <username> is the name of the current user
...
Do you approve the license terms? [yes|no]
>>> yes
Miniconda2 will now be installed into this location:
/Users/<username>/miniconda2
- Press ENTER to confirm the location
- Press CTRL-C to abort the installation
- Or specify a different location below
[/Users/<username>/miniconda2] >>>
PREFIX=/Users/<username>/miniconda2
installing: python-2.7.13-0 ...
installing: asn1crypto-0.22.0-py27_0 ...
installing: cffi-1.10.0-py27_0 ...
installing: conda-env-2.6.0-0 ...
...
Python 2.7.13 :: Continuum Analytics, Inc.
creating default environment...
installation finished.
Do you wish the installer to prepend the Miniconda2 install location
to PATH in your /Users/<username>/.bash_profile ? [yes|no]
[yes] >>> no
You may wish to edit your .bashrc or prepend the Miniconda2 install location:
$ export PATH=/Users/<username>/miniconda2/bin:$PATH
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Thereafter, in a terminal we modify the PATH environment variable:
export PATH=/Users/<username>/miniconda2/bin:$PATH
To install the mayavi Python package, one can execute the following command in the terminal with the PATH
environment variable correctly set:
conda install mayavi=4.5.0
Here is a part of the output
Fetching package metadata .........
Solving package specifications: .
Package plan for installation in environment /fcopt/miniconda2:
The following NEW packages will be INSTALLED:
apptools: 4.4.0-py27_0
cairo: 1.14.8-0
configobj: 5.0.6-py27_0
envisage: 4.5.1-py27_0
freetype: 2.5.5-2
libpng: 1.6.30-1
mayavi: 4.5.0-py27_0
mkl: 2017.0.3-0
numpy: 1.13.1-py27_0
pyface: 5.1.0-py27_0
pygments: 2.2.0-py27_0
pyqt: 4.11.4-py27_4
qt: 4.8.7-4
sip: 4.18-py27_0
traits: 4.6.0-py27_0
traitsui: 5.1.0-py27_0
vtk: 6.3.0-py27_1
The following packages will be UPDATED:
conda: 4.3.21-py27_0 --> 4.3.25-py27_0
Proceed ([y]/n)? y
...
To quickly test the mayavi package, one can run the python code mayavi_boy.py (774 bytes) .
One can install some other usefull packages (for me) as scipy, ipython, ...
conda install scipy ipython
To date, due to conflict in packages version, it’s not possible to install (with mayavi package) the matplotlib package for
a version >1.5.1.