hyperspy/hyperspy — Issue #33: experience of installing 
Author: mwalls
Created: 2011-11-08 09:07:06+00:00
State: open

I decided to install Hyperspy on my Windows 32 laptop, but was unable to do so. I will recount as exactly as possible the steps I went through to see whether it's 1) the process is not working, 2) the documentation is incomplete or 3) I'm an idiot who can't follow simple instructions. As a betting man, I'd go for 3 but we'll see...
I go to the home page and see:

" Hyperspy 0.3.0beta2 has been released! See Beta Releases"

so I click and get the the beta releases page where I see the warning:

"before installing Hyperspy the the required libraries must be installed"

So I click on the libraries part and I see:

"Before installing Hyperspy certain libraries have to be installed in the system. The easiest way to install these packages is by installing the enthough python distribution (EPD) that from version 0.7.1 comes with all the required libraries included by default. Please note that the academic version of EPD is free, you can get it here

Another option in Windows is to install pythonxy."

Since I have pythonxy already installed I assume I can skip this step.

I then see higher up the page:

"Install the development version
To get the development version from our git repository you need to install git. Then just do:
$ git clone https://github.com/hyperspy/hyperspy.git"

So I do that. I get an error message which I will send to Fran but which basically says:
"fatal: https..................../info/refs not found. Did you run git update-server-info on the server?"

I don't know what this means. I wonder about the fact that I've not specified 32 bits anywhere, but I remember that there was a direct installation link on the previous page, so I go back and click on the 32bit version. I follow the process and get an error message which I will send, but which says that the process can't find the right path to do something.

Sorry not to include the full massages. I'll send them to anyone interested, but Idon't have the latest e-mails of everyone (Mike S for example)