How to install

The particularity of OpenElectrophy? is that electrophysiologic recordings are not saved in files but in a database. The benefit is that the access to the data is much more easier and optimized.So to use OpenElectrophy? you need a MySQL server.

It is very easy to install and one server for a whole lab should be enough.

You can also use the someone else server (with a login/password).

Last you can install a local server on your own laptop.

Server side

On linux

The package exists on the majority of distribution. If you are the lucky user of debian or ubuntu, simply : 

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

The only work is to create user, database and privileges. MySQL-administrator or phpmyadmin are GUI and web tools for this work.

More information here :  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/

On windows

Here you can download binaries for mysql server :  http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html

Here you can find a easy to install package with mysqlserver + phpmyadmin + apache :  http://www.easyphp.org

Few commands for administration

Here 3 basic instructions (to launch in a mysql console, not in a linux terminal) for a quick start :

User creation : 

CREATE USER user IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'password'

Database creation : 

CREATE DATABASE  db_name

Privileges for the user on this database : 

GRANT ALL ON db_name.* TO user

Client side

Depencies

The code is written in python, so there are no binaries for it. You only need sources + python + all python modules dependencies.

  • List of dependencies :
    • Qt4
    • Python
    • Python MySQLdb
    • Python numpy
    • Python scipy
    • Python matplotlib
    • Python Qt4
    • gcc and g++
    • Modular toolkit for Data Processing (MDP)

On linux

In a good distribution, all the packages are very common. For example, debian or ubuntu, in a console : 

sudo apt-get install python python-scipy python-numpy python-matplotlib python-qt4 python-mysqldb gcc g++ python-mdp python-tk

On (k)Ubuntu karmic (9.10) or jaunty (9.4) do also this : 

sudo apt-get install python-dev

sudo apt-get install g++-4.2
sudo rm /usr/bin/g++
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-4.2 /usr/bin/g++

(because of a bug in scipy.weave and g++-4.3)

On Windows

The simplest way to get all the required packages is to install  PythonXY the great python scientific distribution for windows. It is available here:

When you install it, do not select the default directory. You will have problem with blanks in path for compiling with g++. So install PythonXY on c:\.

The only thing missing is MySQL :

Alternatively, you can take the old-fashioned way and install all packages and binaries one by one on all these sites:

Source

From SVN

The best way to get the last version:

In a console : 

sudo apt-get install subversion
cd my_install_dir
svn co https://neuralensemble.org/svn/OpenElectrophy/

From .tar

Coming soon ...

Start

Linux

In a console : 

python start_OpenElectrophy.py

Window

Double click on start_OpenElectrophy.py.

Good luck ! Write to the list if you have problems.