Installation

taxtastic requires Python 2.7. The simplest method of installing is using pip:

pip install taxtastic

We strongly recommend installation into a virtualenv. On a clean Ubuntu 16.04 system, complete instructions for installing the taxtastic package and the taxit command line entry point in a virtualenv are below. Note that python2.7 is not longer installed by default in this OS:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python2.7 python-virtualenv

Once python2 is installed, create a virtualenv and install taxtastic:

virtualenv taxtastic-env
source taxtastic-env/bin/activate
pip install -U pip
pip install taxtastic

If you prefer to install from the git repository:

git clone https://github.com/fhcrc/taxtastic.git
cd taxtastic
virtualenv taxtastic-env
source taxtastic-env/bin/activate
pip install .

If you want to live dangerously and install the package to the system despite our pleas not to do so:

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install taxtastic

If you are not familiar with python virtual environments, the following post is helpful: https://realpython.com/blog/python/python-virtual-environments-a-primer/