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<div class="section" id="installing-with-pip">
<h2>Installing with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span></code><a class="headerlink" href="#installing-with-pip" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Installing Catalyst via <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span></code> is slightly more involved than the average
Python package.</p>
<p>There are two reasons for the additional complexity:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li>Catalyst ships several C extensions that require access to the CPython C API.
In order to build the C extensions, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span></code> needs access to the CPython
header files for your Python installation.</li>
<li>Zipline depends on <a class="reference external" href="http://www.numpy.org/">numpy</a>, the core library for
numerical array computing in Python. Numpy depends on having the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.netlib.org/lapack">LAPACK</a> linear algebra routines available.</li>
</ol>
<p>Because LAPACK and the CPython headers are non-Python dependencies, the correct
way to install them varies from platform to platform. If you&#8217;d rather use a
single tool to install Python and non-Python dependencies, or if you&#8217;re already
using <a class="reference external" href="http://continuum.io/downloads">Anaconda</a> as your Python distribution,
you can skip to the <a class="reference internal" href="#conda"><span>Installing with Conda</span></a> section.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve installed the necessary additional dependencies (see below for
your particular platform), you should be able to simply run</p>
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>pip install enigma-catalyst
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>If you use Python for anything other than Catalyst, we <strong>strongly</strong> recommend
that you install in a <a class="reference external" href="https://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest">virtualenv</a>. The <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/">Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to
Python</a> provides an <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/">excellent tutorial on virtualenv</a>. Here&#8217;s a summarized
version:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>virtualenv catalyst-venv
<span class="nv">$ </span><span class="nb">source</span> ./catalyst-venv/bin/activate
<span class="nv">$ </span>pip install enigma-catalyst
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<div class="section" id="gnu-linux">
<h3>GNU/Linux<a class="headerlink" href="#gnu-linux" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>On <a class="reference external" href="https://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros">Debian-derived</a> Linux distributions, you can acquire all the necessary
binary dependencies from <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">apt</span></code> by running:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev python-dev gfortran pkg-config libfreetype6-dev
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>On recent <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_derivatives">RHEL-derived</a> derived Linux distributions (e.g. Fedora), the
following should be sufficient to acquire the necessary additional
dependencies:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>sudo dnf install atlas-devel gcc-c++ gcc-gfortran libgfortran python-devel redhat-rep-config
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>On <a class="reference external" href="https://www.archlinux.org/">Arch Linux</a>, you can acquire the additional dependencies via <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pacman</span></code>:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>pacman -S lapack gcc gcc-fortran pkg-config
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="osx">
<h3>OSX<a class="headerlink" href="#osx" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>The version of Python shipped with OSX by default is generally out of date, and
has a number of quirks because it&#8217;s used directly by the operating system. For
these reasons, many developers choose to install and use a separate Python
installation. The <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/">Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to Python</a> provides an excellent guide
to <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/">Installing Python on OSX</a>, which
explains how to install Python with the <a class="reference external" href="http://brew.sh">Homebrew</a> manager.</p>
<p>Assuming you&#8217;ve installed Python with Homebrew, you&#8217;ll also likely need the
following brew packages:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="nv">$ </span>brew install freetype pkg-config gcc openssl
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="windows">
<h3>Windows<a class="headerlink" href="#windows" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<p>For windows, the easiest and best supported way to install zipline is to use
<a class="reference internal" href="#conda"><span>Conda</span></a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="installing-with-conda">
<span id="conda"></span><h2>Installing with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">conda</span></code><a class="headerlink" href="#installing-with-conda" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Another way to install Catalyst is via the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">conda</span></code> package manager, which
comes as part of Continuum Analytics&#8217; <a class="reference external" href="http://continuum.io/downloads">Anaconda</a> distribution.</p>
<p>The primary advantage of using Conda over <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span></code> is that conda natively
understands the complex binary dependencies of packages like <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">numpy</span></code> and
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scipy</span></code>. This means that <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">conda</span></code> can install Catalyst and its dependencies
without requiring the use of a second tool to acquire Catalyst&#8217;s non-Python
dependencies.</p>
<p>For instructions on how to install <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">conda</span></code>, see the <a class="reference external" href="http://conda.pydata.org/docs/download.html">Conda Installation
Documentation</a></p>
<p>Once conda has been set up you can install Catalyst from our <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Quantopian</span></code>
channel:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash"><div class="highlight"><pre>conda install -c Quantopian zipline
</pre></div>
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