Installation Guide

1. Clone the 2 repos:

• dls-pmac-control.git

• dls-pmac-lib.git

2. Create & activate a Python3 virtual environment:

dls-python3 -m venv <path-to-virtual-env>

source venv/bin/activate

3. Make sure to have an up-to-date version of pip and setuptools:

pip install --upgrade pip

pip install --upgrade setuptools

4. Build the dls-pmac-lib module:

cd dls-pmac-lib

dls-python3 setup.py clean

dls-python3 setup.py build

dls-python3 setup.py install

5. Install pyqt5:

cd dls-pmac-control

pip install pyqt5-tools

6. Make the screens:

make clean

make

7. Build the dls-pmac-control module:

dls-python3 setup.py clean

dls-python3 setup.py build

dls-python3 setup.py install

8. Run the application from within the virtual environment:

dls-pmac-control