Release versions are posted on the GitHub looper releases page. You can install the latest release directly from GitHub using pip:
pip install --user https://github.com/epigen/looper/zipball/master
Update looper with:
pip install --user --upgrade https://github.com/epigen/looper/zipball/master
To put the looper
executable in your $PATH
, add the following line to your .bashrc
or .profile
:
export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH
Now, to test looper, follow the commands in the Hello, Looper! example repository. Details are located in the README file; Briefly, just run these 5 lines of code and you're running your first looper project!
# Install the latest version of looper:
pip install --user https://github.com/epigen/looper/zipball/master
# download and unzip this repository
wget https://github.com/databio/hello_looper/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
# Run it:
cd hello_looper-master
looper run project_config.yaml
Hint
If the looper executable isn't in your path, add it with export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH
.
Now just read the explanation in the Hello, Looper! example repository to understand what you've accomplished.