Download and Install
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*Note: for now this section is only relative to installation under Debian-linux*

GNU/Linux
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EcoloPy requires python>=2.6 as well as several dependencies:

* **python-scipy** for optimization, and statistical tests.
* **gmpy2** in order to deal with huge numbers necessary to compute K(D,A) in Etienne model

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Only needed for drawing graph:

* **python-matplotlib**
* **python-numpy**

Install Python libraries:
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**Required:**
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  apt-get install python-scipy

Accessory:

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  apt-get install python-matplotlib python-scipy


Install GMPY2
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First check your version of python:

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  python --version

*should be 2.6.x or 2.7.x*

Than according to this install the corresponding dev:

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  apt-get install python2.x-dev 

and gmp/mpfr libraries:

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  apt-get install libmpfr-dev libgmp3-dev

and afterward it is necessary to download and install gmpy2 from here:

http://code.google.com/p/gmpy/downloads/list

unzip archive

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  unzip gmpy2-2.xxx.zip
  cd gmpy2-2.xxx
  sudo python setup.py install


Installing EcoloPy
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Once done EcoloPy can be downloaded from here:

https://gitorious.org/ecology/ecology/trees/master

Download the package as tar.gz and uncompress it:

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  tar xzvf ecology-ecology-master.tar.gz

once done, go in the ecology directory and install it:

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  sudo python setup.py install

finally it is a good thing to test if every thing is working fine.

Go to the test directory and run:

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  python test_all.py short