Leaf-GP

Ji Zhou^1,2,3,*, Christopher Applegate¹, Daniel Reynolds¹, and Nick Pullen²

¹Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich UK
²John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich UK
³University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich UK
^*Correspondence: [email protected] or [email protected]

Install Python, the Anaconda Python distribution and OpenCV Python Binding

1. Install Python releases:

   • Read the beginner’s guide to Python if you are new to the language: https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide

   • For Windows users, Python 2 release can be downloaded via: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

   • For Mac OS users, Python 2 release can be downloaded via: https://www.python.org/downloads/mac-osx/

   • Leaf-GP currently only supports Python 2.7.x

2. Install Anaconda Python distribution:

   • Read the install instruction using the URL: https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/install

   • For Windows users, a detailed step-by-step installation guide can be found via: https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/install/windows

   • For Mac OS users, a detailed step-by-step installation guide can be found via: https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/install/mac-os.html

   • An Anaconda Graphical installer can be found via: https://www.continuum.io/downloads#macos

   • We recommend users to install the latest Anaconda Python distribution

3. OpenCV

   • After having installed the Anaconda distribution, users can use conda (a package manager application) to install OpenCV (version 2.4.11, required by Leaf-GP).

   • To install this package with conda run: conda install -c menpo opencv

   • Menpo online package repository can be found via: https://anaconda.org/menpo/opencv

   • For installing the full-version OpenCV-Python, see the URL: http://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/py_tutorials/py_tutorials.html