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Installation
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Prerequisites
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Quantities has a few dependencies:

* Python_ (>=2.6)
* NumPy_ (>=1.4)

If you want to run the test suite on python-2.6 or python-3.1, install the
unittest2_ or unittest2py3k_ package, respectively.


Source Code Installation
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To install Quantities, download the Quantites sourcecode from PyPi_
and run "python setup.py install" in the quantities source directory.

Development
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You can follow and contribute to Quantities' development using git::

  git clone git@github.com:python-quantities/python-quantities.git

Bugs, feature requests, and questions can be directed to the github_
website.


.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
.. _NumPy: http://www.scipy.org
.. _PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quantities
.. _unittest2: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2
.. _unittest2py3k: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/unittest2py3k
.. _github: http://github.com/python-quantities/python-quantities
