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Linux Installation Instructions

Installing Grid Singularity Exchange on Linux Ubuntu 18.04

Step 1: In case you have not already installed git, Python 3.8 and pip (otherwise please go directly to step 2):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core software-properties-common -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3.8 -y
sudo apt-get install git-core -y
sudo apt-get install python3-pip -y

Step 2: Install virtualenv and create a Python virtual environment

pip3 install virtualenv
mkdir envs
cd envs
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.8 gsy-e

How to activate the environment:

source gsy-e/bin/activate

How to deactivate the environment:

deactivate

Step 3: Please add the following lines to your .bashrc and reopen the shell:

export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
export LANG=C.UTF-8

Step 4: Clone the Grid Singularity Exchange repository, gsy-e, to a directory of your choice:

git clone https://github.com/gridsingularity/gsy-e.git

Step 5: Install

Activate your virtual environment and go into the d3a repository

source gsy-e/bin/activate

Install pip-tools

pip3 install pendulum pip-tools

Install dependencies

pip install -e.

Now, if you run gsy-e run -–help , the help of gsy-e should be shown.

Installing Grid Singularity Exchange on Linux Ubuntu 20.04

Please follow the installation instructions for Ubuntu 18.04.

In case you encounter the following error:

error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

please install the following package:

sudo apt-get install build-essential python3.8-dev -y