Windows

The provided software archive contains all the necessary dependencies. It is a windows 64 version (tested on windows 7 and 10). It can be started using “Runpiper.bat”. No installation or administrative rights are needed.

Linux

On linux we rely on the distribution package management system. To run the PIPER application, the required packages are:

python2.7, python-numpy, libxml2-utils, freeglut3

Some functionnalities rely on octave scripts and a few octave toolboxes, to be able to use them, install the additionnal packages:

octave, liboctave-dev, unzip

And then install the octave packages, start octave and proceed with:

$ octave-cli
octave:1> pkg install -forge io
octave:2> pkg install -forge statistics
octave:3> pkg list
Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
--------------+---------+-----------------------
          io  |   2.4.2 | /home/thomas/octave/io-2.4.2
  statistics  |   1.2.4 | /home/thomas/octave/statistics-1.2.4