Virtual Environments

We recommend to use a different virtual environment each time you use the DRS to have the possibility to modify or to add packages to use the results. This will also help you improving reproducibility within the user community. Here is how do we use virtual environments.

Venv

The package we use is named virtualenv, you can install it with:

pip install virtualenv

Then, when the name of the virtual environment has been chosen, you can use:

python -m venv virtual-env-name

To activate it:

source ./virtual-env-name/bin/activate

You can then install everything you need. When you want to leave the environment, use:

deactivate

And you will come back to the main environment.