Installers

Welcome to the PyFluxPro Installers repository!

This repository contains single-file installers for PyFluxPro, the software used by OzFlux and TERN Ecosystem Processes to quality control, post-process, gap fill and partition flux tower data. The installer for your operating system can be downloaded from this repository. Once the installer has been downloaded, simply run the installer, accept the defaults and PyFluxPro will be installed on your local machine. You do not need to install any other software, PyFluxPro comes fully packaged with everything it needs and it won't interfere with your existing Python installation.

Downloading

You can download the installer by following these steps:

1. Click on the folder for your operating system.
2. Click on the installer file. Choose the file with the highest version number to get the latest version.
3. Click on the Download button at the right hand edge of the screen.
4. The file will start downloading after a delay of several seconds.

Installing

Windows

Follow these steps to install PyFluxPro:

1. Navigate to the folder containing the downloaded installer, this will usually be your local Downloads folder.
2. Run the installer by double clicking on the installer file.
3. Accept the defaults.

Note that if your computer is administered by an IT section, you may not be able to install PyFluxPro because you don't have full administrator privileges. Contact your local, friendly IT people for help.

macOS

Follow these steps to install PyFluxPro:

1. Navigate to the folder containing the downloaded installer, this will usually be your local Downloads folder.
2. Uncompress the ZIP file by double clicking on the installer file. Note that some configurations of macOS will do this automatically when the file is downloaded.
3. Uncompressing the ZIP file will create a folder called PyFluxPro, move that folder to where you PyFluxPro e.g. Users/<username>/PyFluxPro.
4. The first time you try to run PyFluxPro, macOS may refuse to allow it to start because it has been unable to check it malicious software. If this happens, go to System Preferences, select Security & Privacy and under the General tab there should be a message about Python. Click the Allow anyway button to allow PyFluxPro to run. NOTE: Starting with Monterey, macOS will not run programs unless they have been notarised. If you keep getting error messages when you try and run PyFluxPro then this is the likely cause. There is a work around for this problem which we can discuss at the workshop.

Note that if your computer is administered by an IT section, you may not be able to install PyFluxPro because you don't have full administrator privileges. Contact your local, friendly IT people for help.

Linux

Come on, you lot are smart enough to figure it out!

Uninstalling

Always copy any control files that you may have saved to your PyFluxPro folder to a safe location before you uninstall PyFluxPro.

Windows

It is best to uninstall PyFluxPro through the Windows Control Panel. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Type control panel into the Windows search bar.
2. Click on the Control Panel entry in the results window.
3. Under the Programs section heading, click on Uninstall a program.
4. Look for PyFluxPro version V?.?.? in the list of installed programs, where V?.?.? is the PyFluxPro version you want to uninstall.
5. Click Yes when Windows asks you if you want to uninstall or change an application.
6. Follow any other prompts.

This will remove all components of PyFluxPro from you local machine.

macOS

Follow these steps:

1. Simply delete the PyFluxPro folder.

Linux

See above!

Want the Bleeding Edge?

If you want the up-to-the-minute, bleeding edge version, clone the PyFluxPro GitHub repository at https://github.com/OzFlux/PyFluxPro.git.