Installing Canopy - ASPP/GeoSim-Fall-School GitHub Wiki

We advise every student to download and install the free version of Enthought Canopy before the school starts.

Canopy provides a standard environment of Python and comes with a lot of (scientific) packages already pre-installed. It installs locally to a user’s home directory and as such does not interfere with a system Python installation. Basically, all that needs to be done is prefixing one’s $PATH environment variable with the path to Canopy. The Canopy installer usually does this automatically by adding something like

VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT=1 source $HOME/Canopy/User/bin/activate

to a user’s .bashrc file.

When the installation was successful, you should see something like this:

$ python
Enthought Canopy Python 2.7.6 | 64-bit | (default, Jun 4 2014, 16:32:15)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information

See the Canopy help for more information.