Installation

Note

Wheels are provided for x86-64 Linux linking against OpenBLAS. Other machines will have to build the wheel from the source distribution. Building rlinalg involves compiling Fortran code, and a Fortran compiler is needed to build from source.

PyPi

rlinalg is hosted on GitHub, but the easiest way to install it is to download the latest release from its PyPi repository. It will install all build dependencies then install rlinalg either from a wheel if one is available, or from source after compiling the Fortran code :

$ pip install --user rlinalg

Piwheels

rlinalg is compatible with Raspberry Pi computers, and pre-built wheels are compiled for armv7l platforms on piwheels. Run the following command to install these instead of compiling from source:

$ sudo apt install libgfortran5 libopenblas0-pthread
$ pip3 install rlinalg --extra-index-url https://www.piwheels.org/simple

Check the piwheels documentation and the rlinalg page on piwheels for more information.

GitHub + pip

If, for any reason, you prefer to download the library from GitHub, you can clone the repository and install the repository by running (with the admin rights):

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/althonos/rlinalg
$ pip install --user ./rlinalg

Caution

Keep in mind this will install always try to install the latest commit, which may not even build, so consider using a versioned release instead.