Installation

Dependencies

The packages needed to run Spectacle should be installed automatically when the user installs the package. These dependencies include

  • astropy>=3.1

  • specutils>=0.4

  • emcee > 3.0

Stable release

To install Spectacle, run this command in your terminal:

$ pip install spectacle

This is the preferred method to install Spectacle, as it will always install the most recent stable release.

If you don’t have pip installed, this Python installation guide can guide you through the process.

From sources

The sources for Spectacle can be downloaded from the Github repo.

You can either clone the public repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/MISTY-pipeline/spectacle

Or download the tarball:

$ curl  -OL https://github.com/MISTY-pipeline/spectacle/tarball/master

Once you have a copy of the source, you can install it with:

$ python setup.py install