2.1 Prerequiste

The basic module of pNbody needs python and additional packages :

  1. Python 2.5 or higher
    http://www.python.org

  2. numpy-1.0.4) or higher
    http://numpy.scipy.org/

  3. Imaging 1.1.5 or higher
    http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

  4. Python megawidgets 1.2 or higer (only usefull for some graphics capabilities)
    http://pmw.sourceforge.net/

For the parallel capabilities, an mpi distribution is needed (lam,mpich) as well as the additional python mpi wrapping:

  1. mpi4py
    http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/mpi4py

In order to convert movies in standard format (gif or mpeg), the two following applications are needed :

  1. convert
  2. ppmtompeg

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