INSTALL

1. Installation

1.1. Virtual envoronment - sandbox
To use the Binner program a virtual environment must be set up. The virtual
environment (virtualenv) can be downloaded from 
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.9.1.tar.gz

To install the virtual environment run the following commands:
curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.9.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf virtualenv-1.9.1.tar.gz
python virtualenv-1.9.1/virtualenv.py --distribute .sandbox

To activate the virtual environmet run the folowing command:
source .sandbox/bin/activate

To deactivate the virtual environment run the folowing command:
deactivate

1.2. Required packages
To install all the required packages into the virtual environment, first
activate the virtual environment and then run the following command:
pip install -r requirements.txt

1.3. Install Binner for development
To register the project main folder in the path used for import statements run
the folowing command:
python setup.py develop