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Windows

Download the latest version of Easyfig (currently Easyfig_win_2.1.zip). Extract contents to the desired location. From within the downloaded folder run Easyfig by double-clicking on the Easyfig_win_2.x.exe executable file; ensure that the folder has been fully extracted and that Easyfig_win_2.x.exe is being run from within the folder. On Windows Vista/7, the Easyfig folder may appear as an application rather than a folder: simply double-click the application to launch Easyfig (known to work on Windows Vista/7 and on PCs younger than 4 years old running Windows XP).

OSX

Download the latest version of Easyfig (currently Easyfig_mac_2.1.tar.gz) and double click on the download to extract contents. Double-click on the Easyfig application to run Easyfig (known to work on Mac OS X versions 10.5 and 10.6).

With later versions you may need to "Allow apps downloaded from anywhere", this option can be Preferences -> Security and Privacy (OSX Version 10.11).

Linux

64Download the latest version of Easyfig (currently Easyfig_linux_2.1.tar.gz). Extract contents to the desired location. From within the downloaded folder run Easyfig by double-clicking on the Easyfig_linux_2.x binary file; ensure that the folder has been fully extracted and that Easyfig_linux_2.x is being run from within the folder.

There are some known issues running compiled versions of Python applications on Windows/Mac OS X. If Easyfig does not run using the above methods we recommend running Easyfig as a Python script.

Running Easyfig as a Python script

Easyfig.py is executable from a terminal window in any OSX and Linux and from Powershell or cmd in Windows. Download the latest version of Easyfig and save to desired location. Open a terminal window, navigate to the directory here you saved Easyfig and type 'python Easyfig_2.1.py' on the command line; this will launch the GUI.

Alternatively, Easyfig.py can be run on Windows or Mac OS X by right-clicking and choosing open with Python or Python Launcher. Using this version of Easyfig requires Python 2.5 or later to be installed. This is available at http://python.org. The graphical user interface library used by Easyfig (Tkinter) is not included with some distributions of Linux and Mac OS X. We recommend reinstalling Python 2.7 from the Python website as Tkinter is included in the standard library.

Command-line version

The command line version of Easyfig can now be executing the above binaries (or Python script) with any arguments.

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