Since v3.0, Taurus is part of the official repositories of Debian (and Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros). You can install it and all its dependencies by doing (as root):
aptitude install python-taurus
(see more detailed instructions in this step-by-step howto)
Download the latest version of taurus from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/taurus
Extract the downloaded tar.gz into a temporary directory
type:
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
test the installation:
python -c "import taurus; print taurus.Release.version"
Download the latest windows binary from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/taurus
Run the installation excecutable
test the installation:
C:\Python26\python -c "import taurus; print taurus.Release.version"
This chapter provides a quick shortcut to all windows packages which are necessary to run taurus on your windows machine
Warning
These instructions will become obsolete as soon as Taurus 3.1 is released because the code development will be moved from SVN to Git. Updated instructions for using Git will be posted ASAP.
You can checkout taurus from SVN from the following location:
svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/tango-cs/code/gui/taurus/trunk taurus taurus
Afterward, if you decide to work directly from SVN code (without installing):
add <taurus checkout dir>/lib to PYTHONPATH
build the resources once:
python setup.py build_resources
Taurus has dependencies on some python libraries. After you installed taurus you can check the state of the dependencies by doing:
>>> import taurus
>>> taurus.check_dependencies()
Checking required dependencies of taurus.core...
Checking for Python >=2.6.0... [OK] (Found 2.6.2)
Checking for PyTango >=7.1.0... [OK] (Found 7.1.0)
Checking required dependencies of taurus.qt...
Checking for PyQt >=4.4.3... [OK] (Found 4.5.0)
Checking for PyQwt >=5.2.0... [OK] (Found 5.2.1)
Checking OPTIONAL dependencies of taurus.qt...
Checking for Qub >=1.0.0... [OK] (Found 1.0.0)
Checking for qtcontrols >=1.0.0... [OK] (Found 1.0.0)
You may already have PyTango installed. You will need PyTango 7 or later. You can check by doing:
python -c 'import PyTango; print PyTango.Release.version'
If that fails or it reports and older version follow the PyTango installation steps to properly install PyTango.
You may already have PyQt installed. You will need PyQt 4.4 or later. You can check by doing:
python -c 'import PyQt4.Qt; print PyQt4.Qt.QT_VERSION_STR'
The plotting widgets are only available if you have PyQwt. You may already have PyQwt installed. You will need PyQwt 5.2.0 or later. You can check it by doing:
python -c 'import PyQt4.Qwt5; print PyQt4.Qwt5.QWT_VERSION_STR'
The image widgets are provided by the guiqwt library. The widgets based on this library replace the previously used Qub-based image widget which is now considered deprecated in Taurus
The Gauge widgets are only available if you have the python extension of qtcontrols. qtcontrols is part of QTango.
The JDraw synoptics widgets are only available if you have the ply package installed.
The NeXus browser widget is only available if you have PyMca installed