FAQ

Installation Issues

Q1. I tried installing/upgrading the OpenDSS Sci_Vis package using the following pip install commands but it did not work for me:

pip install OpenDSS_SciVis

or

pip install OpenDSS_SciVis --upgrade

Is there another way to install the package?

A1. You may want to first try installing the package as a superuser because of how permissions are set on your computer.

sudo pip install OpenDSS_SciVis

or

sudo pip install OpenDSS_SciVis --upgrade

Second, you might also try installing the package by downloading it directly from the GitHub web page and running the setup.py script in the top level folder:

python setup.py install

Note that depending upon how your pip is defined, you may be installing the package under Python 2.7 versus your latest Python 3. To find out which one, run pip with a request for the version:

% which pip
/opt/local/bin/pip
% pip --version
pip 19.1 from /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip (python 2.7)

To install under Python 3 you may have to use the pip3 command instead.

sudo pip3 install OpenDSS_SciVis

or

sudo pip3 install OpenDSS_SciVis --upgrade