QuickStart¶
Install LazGUI¶
The easiest way to install LazGUI is:
pip install lazgui
OR on Linux
sudo pip install lazgui
OR perhaps
pip install --user lazgui
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 lazgui is still pip
.
After navigating to the directory holding LazGUI source code, do the following:
cd full/path/to/lazgui
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 LazGUI¶
After installing with pip
, there will be a launch command line program called lazgui or, on Windows, lazgui.exe. From a terminal or command prompt window simply type:
lazgui
and LazGUI will start. If not, then there may be an issue with your system path. The path for the lazgui executable might be something like:
/usr/local/bin/lazgui (if installed with sudo pip install -e .)
or
/home/<user>/.local/bin/lazgui (if installed with pip install -e .)
or
C:\Python27\Scripts\lazgui.exe (on Windows)
Make sure your system path includes the above path to lazgui.
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 lazgui source package
(and all dependency source packages)
from PyPI and installing from source as shown above at Installation From Source