Install latest release

Warning: This guide assumes that your Python 3.* installation uses python3 and pip3 binaries.

Ubuntu 20.04

• Create a Python Virtual Environment (Optional)

  sudo apt install python3-venv
  python3 -m venv media_client_env
  

  Enable the newly created environment.

  source media_client_env/bin/activate
  

  Assuming ~/home/my_user/media_client/ as the current working directory.

  Now the terminal prompt should look similar to this:

  (media_client_env) my_user@ubuntu:~/home/my_user/media_client/$
  

• Install PostgreSQL

  PostgreSQL is required by psycopg2.

  sudo apt install postgresql libpq-dev python3-dev
  

  Wheel is required to install psycopg2.

  pip3 install wheel
  

• Install the latest package using pip.

  pip3 install horus-media-client
  

• Check installation

  pip3 list | grep horus
  

  Should show a result similar to this:

  $ pip3 list | grep horus
  horus-media-client 0.3.1
  

Windows 10

• Install Python 3.*

• Create a Python Virtual Environment (Optional)

  python3 -m venv media_client_env
  

  Enable the newly created environment.

  media_client_env\Scripts\activate.bat
  

  Assuming C:\Users\my_user\media_client\ as the current working directory.

  Now the terminal prompt should look similar to this:

  (media_client_env) C:\Users\my_user\media_client>
  

• Install PostgreSQL

  PostgreSQL is required by psycopg2.

• Install the latest package using pip.

  pip3 install horus-media-client
  

• Check installation

  pip3 list
  

  Should show a result similar to this:

  (media_client_env) C:\Users\my_user\media_client>pip3 list
  Package            Version
  ------------------ -------
  horus-media-client 0.3.3
  numpy              1.19.1
  Pillow             7.2.0
  pip                20.1.1
  psycopg2           2.8.6 
  pymap3d            2.4.1
  scipy              1.5.2
  setuptools         47.1.0
  

Run example strategy tool

python3 -m horus_media_examples.example_strategy --help

See example strategy tool.