Installation

From an installer

Installers for Windows 10 and MacOS are available on Github.

MacOS

Download the file called ADA.dmg, and click open with DiskImageMounter.

Drag the icon into your applications folder.

When you open it for the first time you will get a warning telling you it’s from an unidentified developer, go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy and there should be a message at the bottom of the general tab that will let you open the app.

The installer was made with MacOS Mojave, earlier or later versions may or may not work. If you find any issues please open up an issue.

Windows 10

There is also an installer available for Windows 10 on DropBox, the file is called ADASetup.exe.

Simply open the file and follow the installation instructions.

Other

Other operating systems can be supported upon request.

From GitHub

Dependencies

These software packages should be installed in the order presented before you attempt to use the Algae Plotter.

Check your version of python

python3 --version

If you don’t have python 3.6 installed then download it

Downloading the Source Code

Clone the repository from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/tgrbrooks/ADA.git

Quick Set-Up

After downloading the source code you can install it with

cd ADA
source run.sh

Detailed Instructions

Create a virtual environment in the ADA directory for installing the dependencies

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Install the dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Install the Algae Plotter app

pip3 install --upgrade -e .

Run the program

python3 ada/main.py

When you open a new terminal you will need to activate the virtual environment again

source venv/bin/activate

You can check for, download and install updates from GitHub with

git pull
pip3 install --upgrade -e .