Setup

This part of the documentation covers the installation of Patent2Net. The first step to using any software package is getting it properly installed. Please read this section carefully.

After successfully installing the software, you might want to follow up with its Configuration.

Installation

Install from source

• Source releases are available from GitHub: https://github.com/Patent2net/P2N/releases

• Install a specific version using pip:

  pip install 'https://github.com/Patent2net/P2N/archive/develop.tar.gz' --upgrade
  

Install binary package

• Binary releases are available at

  http://patent2netv2.vlab4u.info/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=user_manual:download_install

Appendix

Install Patent2Net on Linux

If you’re using Ubuntu or Debian distributions, make sure to have these prerequisites installed:

sudo apt-get install python-pip build-essential python-dev libjpeg-dev libxml2-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng-dev

Install pygraphviz on Mac OS X:

pip install --install-option="--include-path=/opt/local/include" --install-option="--library-path=/opt/local/lib" "pygraphviz==1.3.1"

Install Patent2Net on Windows

• Install Graphviz (I used 2.38)

• Anaconda

  • Starting from Anaconda 2.7 installation (32 or 64 bits)
  • To install Anaconda go to https://www.continuum.io/downloads
  • Use Anaconda 4.2.0 or superior version
  • Use Python 2.7 version

• Then:

  pip install --upgrade requests
  pip install --upgrade networkx
  pip install --upgrade setuptools
  

• Download the epo_ops directory of https://github.com/55minutes/python-epo-ops-client in …Anaconda2Libsite-packages

• In IPython: import epo_ops

• Download curses http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#curses followed by pip install curses-2.2-cp2.7(...).whl

• Download https://bitbucket.org/taynaud/python-louvain followed by python setup.py install

• Install pygraphviz (for 64 bits use: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygraphviz)

• pip install --upgrade jinja2