Windows installation

[nagordon]

Just wanted to share that the windows installation is a little tricky. This worked for me with the loadskernel and model-viewer

conda create --name loadskernel conda 
conda activate loadskernel 
pip install mayavi
pip install PyQt5
pip install configobj
git clone https://github.com/DLR-AE/LoadsKernel.git
cd LoadsKernel
pip install -e .[extras]

[ArneVoss]

Thanks for sharing! I usually use the software on my Linux workstation.

Have you tried the conda package as an alternative? On my Windows laptop that package worked fine with Python 3.10 and 3.11.

[nagordon]

yes I just tested and that works too. I was having issues with my older conda install so I used pip, but would recommend using conda as you indicated.

UPDATE: the conda package is old and has some bugs that are fixed in the newer version. I think the reason the pip install worked is because I cloned the latest repo and installed locally. Can you update the conda package to the latest version? Thanks.

[ArneVoss]

I just wanted to let you know there is a new Release 2025.01 available, including new conda packages.

[entropia666]

Hi! I just saw this thread and want to share our experience on the installation (of the 2024 release), in particular the vtk package gave us headaches, (we had this error on both windows and macOS)we managed to install on windows and MacOS:

`conda config --add channels conda-forge`
`conda config --set channel_priority strict`
`conda create -n py_dlr_loads python=3.11.10`
`conda activate py_dlr_loads`
`conda install vtk` #not sure this is needed
`conda install loadskernel`
`conda install mayavi`
`conda install vtk -c conda-forge --force-reinstall`

I also managed to install it in development mode, after the above steps:

conda activate py_dlr_loads
cd C:\Users\Michele\LoadsKernel
pip install -e .

Thanks for your work!

[ArneVoss]

While the conda package 'loadskernel' includes all dependencies to run the core software, there is a conda package 'loadskernel-extras' that should include all dependencies (like mayavi) for the graphical tools. I am fully aware that the graphical packages can cause some trouble, which is the reason for the separation into two packages.

conda install -c conda-forge loadskernel-extras

[entropia666]

Thanks for your reply! I just tested it works, I don't know why we didn't see it in November when we installed it...