Learning Qiskit

Quick Start

Step Zero

The following steps are specified for a Linux development environment. Each command specified may require slight adjustments to get working for your particular environment, and further adjustments outside of a Linux environment.

Step One

Create virtual Python environment

python3 -m venv venv

Step Two

Enable virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

Step Three

Install requirements

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Common Issues and Solutions

NotFoundError: no lapack/blas resources found

sudo apt-get install gfortran libopenblas-dev liblapack-dev

:1: UserWarning: Matplotlib is currently using agg, which is a non-GUI backend, so cannot show the figure.

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

Step Four

You are now ready to begin!