Installation

Stable release

To install yt_idv, run this command in your terminal:

$ pip install yt_idv

This is the preferred method to install yt_idv, as it will always install the most recent stable release.

If you don’t have pip installed, this Python installation guide can guide you through the process.

From sources

The sources for yt_idv can be downloaded from the Github repo.

You can either clone the public repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/yt-project/yt_idv

Or download the tarball:

$ curl -OJL https://github.com/yt-project/yt_idv/tarball/master

Once you have a copy of the source, you can install it with:

$ python setup.py install

Extra steps for linux

A number of linux distros (Ubuntu 21+, Fedora 34+) have switched the default graphics backend from Xorg to Wayland.

To Use yt_idv on these linux distributions, you may need enforce Xorg usage, which you can do in several ways:

  1. Log into an Xorg session. For Ubuntu, you can still select to launch an Xorg session on the login screen (see here).

OR

  1. Set the PYOPENGL_PLATFORM environment variable to "gdx". In a bash shell:

$ export PYOPENGL_PLATFORM="gdx"

To avoid having to set this variable each time, you can add the above line to your .bashrc or .bash_aliases file.

See Issue 81 for more information.