Developer notes¶
Installation¶
Note
Installation is only tested on (Ubuntu 16.04 ) linux OS.
Please read the Installation Guideline ego.doc.installation.
1. Use virtual environment¶
Create a virtual environment and activate it:
$ virtualenv --clear -p python3.5 ego_dev``
$ cd ego_dev/
$ source bin/activate
2. Get eGo¶
Clone eGo from github.com by running the following command in your terminal:
$ git clone https://github.com/openego/eGo
With your activated environment cd to the cloned directory and run
pip3 install -e eGo --process-dependency-links
.
This will install all needed packages into your environment.
3. Get your Database login data¶
4. Create Dingo grids¶
Install ding0 from github.com and run the example_parallel_multiple_grid_districts.py
script, which can be found under ding0/ding0/examples/
.
$ git clone https://github.com/openego/ding0.git
$ pip3 install -e ding0
$ python3 ding0/ding0/examples/example_parallel_multiple_grid_districts.py
Learn more about Dingo.
Before you run the script check also the configs of Dingo and eDisGo in order to
use the right database version. You find this files under
ding0/ding0/config/config_db_tables.cfg
and
~.edisgo/config/config_db_tables.cfg
. Your created ding0 grids are stored in
~.ding0/..
.
Error handling¶
- Installation Error use pip-18.1 for your installation.
pip install --upgrade pip==18.1
- Installation Error of eTraGo, eDisGo, Pypsa fork or ding0.
If you have problems with one of those packages please clone it from
github.com and install it from the master or dev branch. For example
pip3 install -e git+https://github.com/openego//PyPSA.git@master#egg=pypsafork
- Matplotlib error on server and few other systems. Please change your settings
in
matplotlibrc
frombackend : TkAgg
tobackend : PDF
. You can find the file for example in a virtual environment under~/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data$ vim matplotlibrc
. Learn more here.. - Geopandas error caused by Rtree
Could not find libspatialindex_c library
Please reinstall Rtree withsudo pip3 install Rtree
or installlibspatialindex_c
viasudo apt install python3-rtree
. On Windows or macOS you maybe installlibspatialindex_c
straight from source.