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Reputation: 453

installing a python package not supported by pip or conda into Anaconda on Windows

I have a python package i would like to install or link into Anaconda.

I currently have the package, http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/pythtb/install.html, running by setting up both stock python and Anaconda separately on my Windows machine. (I can only run the desired package in stock python) Ideally, I would like to use the package in Anaconda.

The package i installed came in as an exe file and all i needed to be able to use it in stock python was just to run the exe file.

i have done some googling and found python setup.py install as a way to do just that ( from https://python4astronomers.github.io/installation/packages.html)

It made very little sense to me (im not sure if it's even applicable to my case).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5930

Answers (1)

Ivo
Ivo

Reputation: 5420

  1. Make sure you have 64 bit python
  2. Make sure that the version of python when you type C:\> python is the one you want, e.g it is from Anaconda
  3. Make sure you have numpy & matplotlib installed for this python
  4. Download pythtb-1.6.2.zip to your working directory
  5. Unzip it in this directory, you should see a setup.py there
  6. run python setup.py install

Alternately, with the wheel package installed, one can run wheel convert pythtb-1.6.2.exe on a wininst exe installer to convert it into a wheel that is installable by pip.

Upvotes: 4

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