Installation and configuration

For all methods, Python 3 is required.

Note

The current version of tabulate from PyPi does not support double-width characters, leading to ugly table formatting. You can install tabulate from the source, or install Animanager’s development dependencies (see requirements).

From PyPi

Animanager can be installed fairly easily using from PyPi using pip:

$ pip3 install animanager

You may want to or need to install Animanager for the current user only:

$ pip3 install --user animanager

This requires pip for Python 3.

Setuptools

Animanager can also be installed from the source:

$ make install

This is equivalent to:

$ python3 setup.py install

You can also supply extra flags:

$ make INSTALL_FLAGS=--user install

This requires setuptools for Python 3. You can also install Animanager’s development dependencies, which includes setuptools, when building from source (see requirements).

Warning

Do not use development versions of Animanager except for testing! They may contain database migrations that are not stable or final. If you use them with your real database, it may leave it in an inconsistent state. Stick to versioned releases for regular use.

It is possible to use development versions if there are no problematic migrations, but you should know what you are doing and back up your database.

Development dependencies

You can install the development dependencies via a make shortcut:

$ make requirements

This is equivalent to:

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Again, you can supply extra flags:

$ make INSTALL_FLAGS=--user requirements

Incidentally, this will also install setuptools, which is needed for installing Animanager from source.

This requires pip for Python 3.

Configuration

Animanager uses an INI configuration file. An example config.ini is supplied with the source distribution.

By default, Animanager looks for the configuration file at ~/.animanager/config.ini. This can be changed with the --config flag.