Installing 6.300 Software On GNU/Linux

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Installing Python

From Package Manager

Most major GNU/Linux distributions will have Python 3.6 or newer available in their repositories, and so it may be possible to install an appropriate Python version from its package manager. Typically, this is the python3 package. If so, it is fine to install from there.

On Debian Buster, you can also install IDLE from the idle3 package.

From Source

It is also possible to compile Python from source. Below is the sequence of commands necessary to compile Python 3.11 on Debian Bullseye:

$ sudo apt-get -y build-dep python3
$ sudo apt-get -y install build-essential libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline6-dev libdb5.3-dev libgdbm-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libexpat1-dev liblzma-dev zlib1g-dev tk-dev uuid-dev libffi-dev
$ wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.11.1/Python-3.11.1.tar.xz
$ tar xvf Python-3.11.1.tar.xz
$ cd Python-3.11.1
$ ./configure --enable-optimizations
$ make
$ sudo make altinstall

These commands first install the software necessary to build Python, and then compile and install it. You can test that it worked by running python3 from a command prompt (note that it should report its version as 3.11.1).

Installing 6.300 Software

The following command should install the 6.300 software. You may need to add sudo, or to use pip instead of pip3:

$ pip3 install https://sigproc.mit.edu/_static/fall24/software/lib6300-0.0.6.tar.gz

Optional: Install PyAudio

You may also wish to install the pyaudio package, which is required to play WAV files interactively from lib6300, though it is not necessary for opening or saving WAV files. You can install this from your distribution's package manager, or with:

$ pip3 install pyaudio