Installing brainrender#
Environment#
To install brainrender
, you need a python environment with a Python 3.8. This may be a different version than you are
using for other software. Using conda this can be created with:
conda create --name brainrender python=3.8 -y
Basic installation#
Installing brainrender
is as simple as:
pip install brainrender
Attention
Make sure to have your conda environment active when running pip install
Caution
You might get some error messages reporting conflicting version requirements for the allensdk
package and a couple of
others. You can safely ignore these.
Hint
Note that some of brainrender
’s more rarely used features may require the installation of additional packages.
Once you have installed brainrender, dive right in with this getting started example notebook!
Advanced installation#
If you want the most recent version of brainrender
’s code, perhaps to help developing it, you can either
clone the GitHub repository or you can get install it directly from
GitHub with:
pip install -U git+https://github.com/brainglobe/brainrender.git