Installation¶

PYTHONPATH¶

PYTHONPATH sets the search path for importing python modules. So, a reasonable way to use nbodypy is to install it using the PYTHONPATH mechanism.

Suppose that we have a directory in which we want to put all the local python package or modules: /home/LOGIN/the/path.

You can export this directory to the environment variable PYTHONPATH (in your .bashrc for example) :

export PYTHONPATH=/home/LOGIN/the/path:$PYTHONPATH

After doing that, you just have to add the nbodypy directory of the git repository (containing the python files) in the python directory:

/home/LOGIN/the/path/nbodypy