Installation

Installation involves two pretty simple steps. Install Dynac, then install Pynac.

Dynac Installation

Dynac is distributed as Fortran source. You’ll need Gfortran to compile it, so start by installing this using your favourite package manager (for example, sudo apt-get install gfortran should work on Ubuntu/Debian-based systems), or by downloading the appropriate binary from from the GFortranBinaries page. Once Gfortran is installed, follow these steps to get Dynac running.

Go to the Dynac download page, and follow the necessary steps to install Dynac on your system. Pynac currently assumes that the Dynac executable is called dynacv6_0, so please make sure to do this.

Pynac Installation

I recommend working in a virtual environment, but since some people don’t like to do that, I’ve listed the steps for either case here.

In a virtualenv

To do this you’ll need virtualenv on your system. sudo pip install virtualenv

1. Make a directory to work in, and move into it – mkdir workingDir && cd workingDir
2. Create and start a Python3 virtual environment using whatever technique you normally use. Perhaps as following:

• virtualenv --no-site-packages --python=python3 venv
• source venv/bin/activate

3. Install the bokeh plotting library – pip install bokeh
4. Install Pynac – pip install Pynac

Not in a virtualenv

1. Make a directory to work in, and move into it – mkdir workingDir && cd workingDir
2. Install the bokeh plotting library – sudo pip install bokeh
3. Install Pynac – sudo pip install Pynac