1.3.1 Prerequisites

In order to run pyFormex, you need to have the following installed (and working) on your computer. If you only want to use the Formex data model and transformation methods, the above will suffice. But most probably you will also want to run the pyFormex Graphical User Interface (GUI) for visualizing your structures. Then you also need the following:

Since version 0.7, pyFormex includes an acceleration library that can increase the speed of some low level operations (e.g. drawing), especially when working on very large structures. If you want to compile and use this library, you also need to have a working C compiler and the Python and OpenGL header files. On a Debian based system, you should install tha packages python-dev, python-qt4-dev and libgl1-mesa-dev.



Footnotes

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The Numarray package, which was used up until pyFormex 0.3, is no longer supported