Installation
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Requirements
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*geppy* can only work in Python 3.4 or higher, and *geppy* depends on `DEAP <https://github.com/deap/deap>`_. If you haven't installed DEAP yet, it will be installed automatically when you install *geppy*.


Install *geppy*
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Install from PyPI with pip
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

We encourage you to use pip_ to install *geppy* on your system. ::

   pip install geppy
   
Install from source
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If you wish to build from sources, download_ or clone_ the repository. First change into the root directory (the one containing *setup.py*) ::

	cd geppy

Then, install from source with pip_ ::

   pip install .
   
(Note there is a dot at the end of the above command.)

.. _download: https://github.com/ShuhuaGao/geppy
.. _clone: https://github.com/ShuhuaGao/geppy.git
.. _pip: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/