Installation on windows using a pre build package (pypi)

Python

Get and run the latest official Python (2.7.x or 3.5.x) installer from http://www.python.org/download/

The Python binary and the Scripts directory should be set within the system PATH variable. Therefore append the following to the system PATH

;C:\path\to\Python;C:\path\to\Python\Scripts

See http://docs.python.org/using/windows.html#excursus-setting-environment-variables for a short tutorial on changing environment variables in Windows.

Dependencies

1. Using pre-compiled executable installers are the easiest way to install the needed packages NumPy, SciPy and matplotlib. * The official 32-bit installers are available at:

   • http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/
   • http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipy/files/
   • http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/ * or fetch the unofficial but recommended Windows releases from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ (get the MKL builds for NumPy).

2. ObsPy and further dependencies can be downloaded via pip. pip is already installed if you're using Python 2 >=2.7.9 or Python 3 >=3.4, but you'll need to upgrade pip. Download and run from the windows command line the Python script https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py.

   python.exe get-pip.py

3. The following depended Python module are needed. Run from windows command line:

   pip install lxml sqlalchemy

4. We strongly recommend the enhanced Python shell IPython which can be obtained via:

   pip install pyreadline ipython

5. In order to run the whole test suite you will need a few more packages

   pip install flake8 nose mock

ObsPy

Run on command line:

pip install obspy

ObsPy may be updated at any time using the -U option:

pip install -U obspy