Advanced installation options

Installation

MicroDrop can be installed using any of the methods below.

No existing Python 2.7 32-bit Windows installation (recommended)

Download installer for latest MicroDrop release.

This installer is a customized distribution of the popular Miniconda Python.

Existing anaconda (Python 2.7 32-bit Windows) installation (recommended)

Run:

conda install -c wheeler-microfluidics "microdrop>=2.0,<3.0" microdrop-launcher dmf-device-ui

Note the -c wheeler-microfluidics flag allows installing conda packages from the wheeler-microfluidics channel.

Create a separate conda environment for MicroDrop

Run:

conda create -n microdrop -c wheeler-microfluidics "microdrop>=2.0,<3.0" microdrop-launcher dmf-device-ui

To activate the MicroDrop conda environment, run:

activate microdrop

To deactivate the MicroDrop conda environment, run:

deactivate

See "Managing environments" section of Conda documentation for more information.