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Installation and dependencies
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You will need IPython 0.11, and pyzmq >= 2.1.4. If you have EPD 7.1, you have both of these, but
IPython is 0.11.rc1. rc1 is mostly fine, with a few little bugs, but the main difference
you will notice is that in rc1, specifying values on the command-line does not expect
a leading ``--``.

In rc1::

    ipython profile=foo --pylab

It turns out, people hate this, so in dev and the future, this is::

    ipython --profile=foo --pylab

This pattern is true for all cl *assignments* (non-assignment flags did not change).

IPython from master::

    git clone git://github.com/ipython/ipython.git

or without git::

    pip install https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tarball/master

pyzmq-2.1.7 has eggs for various current OSX and Windows Pythons. If we don't have an egg
for you, you can build & install libzmq from http://www.zeromq.org/area:download.

pyzmq `eggs <http://python.org/pypi/pyzmq>`_ and `installers <https://github.com/zeromq/pyzmq/downloads>`_.

Macs can get a 32+64b intel libzmq via `homebrew <https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew>`_ with::

    brew install zeromq --universal

After you have libzmq (and run ldconfig to update its cache), pyzmq *should* be
pip/easy_installable.

Get the `tutorial code <https://github.com/minrk/scipy-tutorial-2011>`_

Optional dependencies:  I will use SymPy_ and NetworkX_, each for one demo, but they are not critical.


.. _SymPy: http://www.sympy.org
.. _NetworkX: http://networkx.lanl.gov/