Installation

Starting with v0.3.9, AntPack can only be used for non-commercial purposes and is made available under an ASL license. To use it you’ll first need to obtain a license key; at this time you can do so by emailing

The only required dependency is numpy which is automatically installed. If you want to run the GUI, however, you have to install two additional optional dependencies::

pip install pyside6 qt_material

If you don’t want to use the GUI these dependencies are not needed. These dependencies may no longer be required in future.

To install AntPack, type::

pip install antpack

Then::

AntPack-setup

AntPack will prompt you for your license key and email then verify these. These will be saved so you do not need to enter them again, although you should keep them in case you need to reinstall AntPack.

AntPack is distributed precompiled as a wheel for Linux and Windows. In these cases pip will install it without any need to compile any code. In the unlikely event that you encounter any issues please contact us using the Issues page on Github (see About / Contact section on the main page of the github repo).

Required dependencies are numpy. These should be automatically installed but if desired can be installed first. Python 3.9 or later is required.