Installing OGGM

Important

Did you know that you can try OGGM in your browser before installing it on your computer? Visit Try OGGM online for more information.

OGGM itself is a pure Python package, but it has several dependencies which are not trivial to install. The instructions below provide all the required detail and should work on any platform.

OGGM is fully tested with Python version 3.6 and 3.7 on Linux. OGGM doesn’t work with Python 2. We do not test OGGM on Mac OS, but it should probably run fine.

OGGM usually does not work on Windows. If you are using Windows 10, we strongly recommend to install the free Windows subsytem for Linux and install and run OGGM from there.

Note

Complete beginners should get familiar with Python and its packaging ecosystem before trying to install and run OGGM.

For most users we recommend following the steps here to install Python and the package dependencies with the conda package manager. Linux or Debian users and people with experience with pip can follow the specific instructions here to install with virtualenv.

Dependencies

Here is a list of all dependencies of the OGGM model. If you want to use the numerical models and nothing else, refer to Install a minimal OGGM environment below.

Standard SciPy stack:
  • numpy
  • scipy
  • scikit-image
  • pillow
  • matplotlib
  • pandas
  • xarray
  • dask
  • joblib
Configuration file parsing tool:
  • configobj
I/O:
  • netcdf4
GIS tools:
  • gdal
  • shapely
  • pyproj
  • rasterio
  • geopandas
Testing:
Other libraries:
Optional:
  • progressbar2 (displays the download progress)
  • bottleneck (speeds up xarray operations)
  • python-colorspace (applies HCL-based color palettes to some graphics)

Install with conda (all platforms)

This is the recommended way to install OGGM.

Prerequisites

You should have a recent version of the conda package manager. You can get conda by installing miniconda (the package manager alone - recommended) or anaconda (the full suite - with many packages you won’t need).

Conda environment

We recommend to create a specific environment for OGGM. In a terminal window, type:

conda create --name oggm_env python=3.X

where 3.X is the Python version shipped with conda (currently 3.6). You can of course use any other name for your environment.

Don’t forget to activate it before going on:

source activate oggm_env

(on Windows: activate oggm_env)

Dependencies

Install all OGGM dependencies from the conda-forge and oggm conda channels:

conda install -c oggm -c conda-forge oggm-deps

The oggm-deps package is a “meta package”. It does not contain any code but will install all the packages OGGM needs automatically.

Warning

The conda-forge channel ensures that the complex package dependencies are handled correctly. Subsequent installations or upgrades from the default conda channel might brake the chain. We strongly recommend to always use the the conda-forge channel for your installation.

You might consider setting conda-forge (and oggm) as your default channels:

conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda config --add channels oggm

No scientific Python installation is complete without installing IPython and Jupyter:

conda install -c conda-forge ipython jupyter

Install OGGM itself

First, choose which version of OGGM you would like to install:

  • stable: this is the latest version officially released and has a fixed version number (e.g. v1.1).
  • dev: this is the development version. It might contain new features and bug fixes, but is also likely to continue to change until a new release is made. This is the recommended way if you want to use the latest changes to the code.
  • dev+code: this is the recommended way if you plan to explore the OGGM codebase, contribute to the model, and/or if you want to use the most recent model updates.

‣ install the stable version:

If you are using conda, you can install stable OGGM as a normal conda package:

conda install -c oggm oggm

If you are using pip, you can install OGGM from PyPI:

pip install oggm

‣ install the dev version:

For this to work you’ll need to have the git software installed on your system. In your conda environmnent, simply do:

pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/OGGM/oggm.git

With this command you can also update an already installed OGGM version to the latest version.

‣ install the dev version + get access to the OGGM code:

For this to work you’ll need to have the git software installed on your system. Then, clone the latest repository version:

git clone https://github.com/OGGM/oggm.git

Then go to the project root directory:

cd oggm

And install OGGM in development mode (this is valid for both pip and conda environments):

pip install -e .

Note

Installing OGGM in development mode means that subsequent changes to this code repository will be taken into account the next time you will import oggm. You can also update OGGM with a simple git pull from the root of the cloned repository.

Testing OGGM

You can test your OGGM installation by running the following command from anywhere (don’t forget to activate your environment first):

pytest --pyargs oggm

The tests can run for a couple of minutes. If everything worked fine, you should see something like:

=============================== test session starts ===============================
platform linux -- Python 3.5.2, pytest-3.3.1, py-1.5.2, pluggy-0.6.0
Matplotlib: 2.1.1
Freetype: 2.6.1
rootdir:
plugins: mpl-0.9
collected 164 items

oggm/tests/test_benchmarks.py ...                                           [  1%]
oggm/tests/test_graphics.py ...................                             [ 13%]
oggm/tests/test_models.py ................sss.ss.....sssssss                [ 34%]
oggm/tests/test_numerics.py .ssssssssssssssss                               [ 44%]
oggm/tests/test_prepro.py .......s........................s..s.......       [ 70%]
oggm/tests/test_utils.py .....................sss.s.sss.sssss..ss.          [ 95%]
oggm/tests/test_workflow.py sssssss                                         [100%]

==================== 112 passed, 52 skipped in 187.35 seconds =====================

You can safely ignore deprecation warnings and other messages (if any), as long as the tests end without errors.

This runs a minimal suite of tests. If you want to run the entire test suite (including graphics and slow running tests), type:

pytest --pyargs oggm --run-slow --mpl

Congrats, you are now set-up for the Getting started section!

Install with virtualenv (Linux/Debian)

Note

We used to recommend our users to use conda instead of pip, because of the ease of installation with conda. As of August 2019, a pip installation is also possible without major issue on Debian.

The instructions below have been tested on Debian / Ubuntu / Mint systems only!

Linux packages

Run the following commands to install required packages. We are not sure this is strictly necessary, but you never know.

For the build:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential python-pip liblapack-dev \
    gfortran libproj-dev python-setuptools

For matplolib:

$ sudo apt-get install tk-dev python3-tk python3-dev

For GDAL:

$ sudo apt-get install gdal-bin libgdal-dev python-gdal

For NetCDF:

$ sudo apt-get install netcdf-bin ncview python-netcdf4

Virtual environment

Next follow these steps to set up a virtual environment.

Install extensions to virtualenv:

$ sudo apt-get install virtualenvwrapper

Reload your profile:

$ source /etc/profile

Make a new environment, for example called oggm_env, with Python 3:

$ mkvirtualenv oggm_env -p /usr/bin/python3

(further details can be found for example in this tutorial)

Python packages

Be sure to be on the working environment:

$ workon oggm_env

Update pip (important!):

$ pip install --upgrade pip

Install some packages one by one:

$ pip install numpy==1.16.4 scipy pandas shapely matplotlib pyproj \
    rasterio Pillow geopandas netcdf4==1.3.1 scikit-image configobj joblib \
    xarray progressbar2 pytest motionless dask bottleneck toolz descartes

The pinning of the NetCDF4 package was necessary for us, but your system might differ (related issue).

Finally, install the pytest-mpl OGGM fork, salem and python-colorspace libraries:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/OGGM/pytest-mpl.git
$ pip install git+https://github.com/fmaussion/salem.git
$ pip install git+https://github.com/retostauffer/python-colorspace.git

OGGM and tests

Refer to Install OGGM itself above.

Install a minimal OGGM environment

If you plan to use only the numerical core of OGGM (that is, for idealized simulations or teaching), you can skip many dependencies and only install this shorter list: - numpy - scipy - pandas - matplotlib - shapely - requests - configobj - netcdf4 - xarray

Installing them with pip or conda should be much easier.

Running the tests in this minimal environment works the same. Simply run from a terminal:

pytest --pyargs oggm

The number of tests will be much smaller!