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# Installation and Dependencies

This project was written with Python 2.6, and tested on Windows 7 and Linux openSUSE. It should work platform independently and with all Python versions >=2.6 and <3.0. Make sure to have the dependencies listed below installed.

If you download and copy the code, please make sure that the main folder ComplexNetworkSim is on your PYTHONPATH.

## Download

If you have distutils installed, run `easy_install ComplexNetworkSim`, or otherwise download the code from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ComplexNetworkSim/

## Dependencies

Please make sure the following is installed before running ComplexNetworkSim code. (if installing via `easy_install ComplexNetworkSim` then it will attempt to install networkX, SimPy and Matplotlib itself)

NetworkX is a “high productivity software for complex networks” implemented in Python, allowing manipulation and study of the structure and functions of complex networks. It is required to run code from this project.

SimPy (= Simulation in Python SimPy ) is an object-oriented, process-based discrete-event simulation language based on standard Python.

Visualisations and plotting of results are not automatically called when running a simulation, to give the user to option not to use this functionality and to analyse results in an alternative fashion. It is nevertheless highly recommended to install the following libraries:

Matplotlib is a plotting library for Python which is used to generate both the plots and the animated visualisations. It can generate a variety of different plots and figures which can be saved to PNG image files.

Matplotlib itself relies on the scientific computing library NumPy which also has be be installed.

When running a simulation which includes the creation of a visualisation, the framework will attempt to create an animated gif image once the static png images have been created (and will just display a message to the console to notify you if ImageMagick is not installed correctly). For this, the class animator_gifs is dependant on ImageMagick, as it requires its convert function call to combine multiple static images (.png) into an animated one (.gif). ImageMagick is an open source software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image files. It can read and write over 100 image file formats. To make use of it, the ImageMagick convert executable has to be on your system path.

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