Software Installation
ExpEYES software consists of a Python package (named expeyes), containing three modules (eyes, eyeplot and eyemath), and several application programs written in python. Download and untar expeyes.tgz to get all of them. The GUI programs depend on Tkinter and python-scipy. Various methods of installing expEYES is given below.
1. The expEYES Live CD
The easiest way to use expEYES is to boot your computer from the expEYES live CD and start the expEYES program from the Applications-Science menu. Download the ISO image of the Live DVD
2. To install on Ubuntu / Debian GNU/Linux
Download the Debian package expeyes.deb and install it. Make sure that you have installed python-imaging-tk, grace and scipy. Also python-pygrace.
Proper Debian packages are available thanks to Georges Khasnadar. Dowload them and install using gdebi.
3. On Other GNU/Linux Distributions
Download expeyes.tgz, untar and follow the instructions given in the README file.
# tar zxf expeyes-1.0.3.tgz
# cd EYES
# sh postinst
4. On MS Windows
The driver for the FT232 Serial to USB converter chip, Python Interpreter, Pyserial module and Python Imaging Library are essential. For full functionality numpy and scipy libraries are also required. Download the files from the following URLs and install them. To install, you need to double click on the filename icons and follow the default options.
http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM20814_Setup.exe
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.6/python-2.6.6.msi
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyserial/files/pyserial/2.5/pyserial-2.5.win32.exe/download
http://effbot.org/downloads/PIL-1.1.7.win32-py2.6.exe
Download expeyes.zip and Unzip it. Browse the newly created directory named EYES and double click on explore.py.
All the required files are on the ExpEYES Live CD. Browse the WINEYES directory and read the file winstall.html
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