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