Setting Up Canopy Environment

Setting Up Canopy Environment

Use the follow instructions to set up your user environment to use canopy-1.4.1 (python):

Setting up Canopy in a bash shell

• Run Canopy's setup command from the shell, setting it as the default version of Python.

 /opt/canopy-1.4.1/canopy_cli --no-gui-setup setup --set-default ~/canopy

• Log out and log back in. You should see Python defaults to Canopy Python in your user environment:

 bash-4.1$ which python
 ~/canopy/bin/python

Setting up Canopy in a windowed environment

• Run canopy:

 /opt/canopy-1.4.1/canopy

• Click "Continue" on Canopy Environment Setup screen:

• Select "Yes" on Make Canopy your default Python environment screen and click "Start using Canopy". You can quit the GUI at this time.

• Add the following line in your .profile

VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT=1 source ~/Enthought/Canopy_32bit/User/bin/activate

• Log out and log back in. You should see Python defaults to Canopy Python in your user environment:

 bash-4.1$ which python
 ~/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/bin/python