Installation
============
Requirements
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Omnifit has the following requirements:
  * `Python <http://www.python.org>`_ 2.7 (support for 3.x is planned)
  * `Numpy <http://www.numpy.org>`_ (tested to work with 1.9.2)
  * `lmfit <http://lmfit.github.io/lmfit-py/>`_ 0.9.2 or later
  * `Astropy <http://astropy.org>`_ 1.0 or later

Installing Omnifit
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Using pip
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Installation using pip works by running

::

  pip install omnifit

Building from source
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First you must download the source code for omnifit.
The most up to date development version of omnifit can be cloned from `the github repository <https://github.com/RiceMunk/omnifit>`_.

Once you have downloaded and extracted the Omnifit source files, you can build it by invoking the command

::

  python setup.py build

in the directory containing setup.py. After omnifit is finished building, you may install it by invoking

::

  python setup.py install

If you wish to install Omnifit on a computer on which you do not have administrator rights, you can instead use the command

::

  python setup.py install --user

After installation completes you should be able to import omnifit in Python using the command

::

  import omnifit

If this does not raise an error, omnifit has been successfully installed on your system!