Installation Instructions

These instructions are for Linux-based systems. If you're using OSX, see the OSX installation instructions. For Cray XT5 compute nodes, see the Cray XT5 installation instructions.

Automated Script

I've written a script that does its best to download and install all the necessary dependencies of yt. There is also a more detailed guide with system-specific information at http://yt.enzotools.org/doc/installation.html .

There are two major branches of YT -- the 1.6 branch and the trunk version, which will become 2.0. Feel free to try either one, and please report back any problems!

1.6 Release

On January 22, 2009, we released version 1.6. You can download a tarball  here. We recommend you use the stable branch instead, however.

Stable Branch

To check out the installer script for the stable branch, run:

svn export http://svn.enzotools.org/yt/branches/yt-1.6/doc/install_script.sh

If your subversion installation doesn't support the "export" command, you can also download this URL as normal, with wget or your web browser.

You can then edit install_script.sh and set the root directory tree you wish to build and install into as the YT_DIR parameter. You can then run it:

bash install_script.sh

and it'll go off on its merry way installing into YT_DIR. If the installation is successful, it will print out the needed information for running yt.

Note that if you are having trouble with the wxPython installation, you should feel free to comment out the relevant sections of the installation script, as it is completely optional

Active Development Version

To check out the installer script for the current version, run:

svn export http://svn.enzotools.org/yt/trunk/doc/install_script.sh

but it works the same way! If your subversion installation doesn't support the "export" command, you can also download this URL as normal, with wget or your web browser.

Note that if you are having trouble with the wxPython installation, you should feel free to comment out the relevant sections of the installation script, as it is completely optional

Manual Installation

See the appropriate page.