Installing MultiPie

Installing MultiPie#

MultiPie can be installed from PyPI using pip on Python 3.11 or later.

Python ≥ 3.11
[Optional] A TeX Live environment is recommended for generating LaTeX and PDF files.

macOS
- Install Homebrew (if not already installed):
- Install Python:
```
brew install python@3.13
```
- Add Python (and LaTeX, if needed) to your .bashrc or .zshrc:
```
export PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.13/libexec/bin:$PATH
```
- If you use a virtual environment (e.g. ~/.venv), prepend its bin directory to PATH.
- Restart your shell.
Linux
- Install Python using your distribution’s package manager or from source.
- Add Python (and LaTeX, if needed) to your shell configuration file (e.g. .bashrc or .zshrc):
```
export PATH=/path/to/python/bin:$PATH
```
- If you use a virtual environment, ensure its bin directory appears before the global Python path.
- Restart your shell.
Windows
- Install PowerShell and Python by following the instructions at: https://microsoft.com/PowerShell
- Ensure that Python is added to your system PATH during installation.

Install MultiPie All required dependencies will be installed automatically.
```
pip install multipie
```

Install QtDraw Install the visualization tool QtDraw:

pip install qtdraw
playwright install chromium  # for Linux use `playwright install-deps chromium` instead.

Linux (Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS on WSL2)

Install required system libraries:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade  # optional, but recommended
sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0

MultiPie provides the following command-line utilities:

mp_create_samb file1, file2, ...

create the SAMB for the specified model files.
mp_create_samb_matrix file1, file2, ...

create the SAMB matrix for the specified select_parameter files.
mp_create_samb_qtdraw file1, file2, ...

generate QtDraw files of the SAMB for the specified model files.

See the Getting Started guide for examples.