Installing PyVO

Information about this package, including latest releases, can be found at:

Source code can be found on GitHub at:

This implementation requires the following prerequisite packages:

  • numpy
  • astropy

If you install PyVO from a source distribution, these must be installed first.

As an Astropy affiliate, this package uses the Astropy build infrastructure.

Releases of PyVO are available from PyPI; thus, it and its prerequisites can be most easily installed using pip:

pip install pyvo

Alternatively, you can download and unpack a source tar-ball (pyvo-x.x.tar.gz). To install directly into the python installation, type as root user inside the distributions root directory:

python setup.py install

To install into a special directory called, say, $MYPYVO (which need not require root permission), first be sure that astropy and numpy are in your PYTHONPATH (if they are also installed in a non-standard place). Next, try:

python setup.py install –home=$MYPYVO

To just try out PyVO in this directory, you can build it in “developer” mode via:

python setup.py build_ext –inplace

In this mode, update your PYTHONPATH to include the directory containing this file.