Getting Started

Note: We recommend the Anaconda Python distribution, which contains many easy-to-install scientific python packages. If you already had a non-Anaconda version of python installed, you will need to make sure you use Anaconda in order to follow the instructions below.

• Download and Install Anaconda. The current recommended Python version is 3.11. Other Python 3 versions should work but are not actively tested.

• Anaconda provides a way to make a clean set of packages in an “environment”. Follow these steps to create an conda environment. This environment includes ScopeFoundry and all of the packages ScopeFoundry needs to run.

Windows

Open an Anaconda prompt and run the following commands:

conda create -n scopefoundry python=3.12

conda activate scopefoundry

conda install numpy qtpy h5py pyqtgraph qtconsole matplotlib

pip install pyqt6 scopefoundry

The first two lines create and activate a clean python / conda environment for your ScopeFoundry app to use, the next lines install the required packages and the final line install the ScopeFoundry package itself.

The use of the conda environment is optional, but provides a clean, known working environment for ScopeFoundry

Mac / Linux

Same step as above except that you can use terminal instead of anaconda prompt.

For olders versions of anaconda (<4.4 before 2017) you have to replace conda activate scopefoundry with

source activate scopefoundry

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