Re: PDFgetX3 installation problem

[Pavol Juhas]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Columbia Technology Transfer <techtr...@columbia.edu>
...
> A new inquiry has been received for technology #m11-120 - xPDFsuite
> - an end-to end software solution for atomic pair distribution
> function analysis:
>
> I have the non-commercial academic license Agreement #5763-columbia.
> I sing in to the Nouvant account and download the software package
> PDFgetX3 - Software Package for Python 2.7 unzip and install this.
> The manual say:
>
> PDFgetX3 is distributed as a Python egg package. Start the
> command prompt on Windows (I use Windows 7, 64 bit and Python
> 2.7), navigate to the directory that contains the egg file and
> execute the following command:
> easy_install diffpy.pdfgetx-VERSION-pyX.Y.egg
> Here VERSION needs to be replaced to match the actual filename,
> and X.Y is the Python version.
>
> I don’t find any egg-file in the download. Where is this file
> located or how can I obtain this file?
> Thank you and best regards, Paul Bernd Kempa

Dear Paul,

The software package that was downloaded from Nouvant is the actual
egg file. Please see the attached screenshot of my Nouvant download
page. For me the "PDFgetX3 - Software Package for Python 2.7"
downloads as "diffpy.pdfgetx-1.1-py2.7.egg".

Although the egg package is a valid zip file, it should not be
expanded. Just use it as is with the easy_install command as
described in the manual.

Hope this works, let me know if there are some other problems
with the installation.

Best wishes,

Pavol