Getting Started

Installing ScopeFoundry and its dependencies.

We recommend the miniconda Python distribution, which contains many easy-to-install scientific python packages and recommend to create a separate environment.

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

Windows

  1. Download and install miniconda python distribution

  2. Create an environment with the required dependencies. Anaconda provides a way to make a clean set of packages in an environment. To create an environment called “scopefoundry” use anaconda(3) prompt to run:

    conda create -n scopefoundry python=3.13

    To include ScopeFoundry and all of the packages ScopeFoundry needs to run activate the environment:

    conda activate scopefoundry

  3. To download and install ScopeFoundry and it’s dependencies

    pip install pyqt6 qtconsole matplotlib scopefoundry

    where qtconsole, matplotlib are optional

Mac / Linux

Same step as above for Windows except that

  • you can use terminal instead of anaconda prompt.

  • for older versions of anaconda (<4.4 before 2017) you have to replace conda activate scopefoundry with

    source activate scopefoundry

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