Installation¶
The easiest way to install the latest stable version of Biff is via pip:
pip install biff
If this doesn’t work, you can try to build the latest developer version as described below.
Cloning, Building, Installing¶
The latest development version of Biff can be cloned from
GitHub using git
:
git clone git://github.com/adrn/biff.git
To build the project (from the root of the source tree, e.g., inside
the cloned biff
directory):
python setup.py build
To install the project:
python setup.py install
Dependencies¶
The internals of Biff are implemented in C and Cython. To build the Cython code, you’ll need to have installed GNU scientific library (GSL). On a Mac, I recommend installing this with Homebrew or anaconda. With anaconda, you can install GSL with:
conda -c https://anaconda.org/asmeurer/gsl install gsl
You’ll also need the following packages: