Installing Album

See FAQ / Troubleshooting in case you run into issues. Please also file an issue if you experience unwanted behaviour.

Automated installation with Album installation wizard:

You can install Album by simply downloading the installation wizard for your operating system and executing it.

The installation wizards will create a new directory called .album inside your home directory. Into this directory the installer installs Micromamba version 1.0.0 and creates the Album environment for you. On your Desktop you will find a link called Album which will start the Album graphical user interface.

On some Windows systems, especially virtual machines, the installer will trigger a request for admin rights. This is because the installer of micromamba needs to edit the powershell profile. The installer will only edit the profile of the current user and not the system profile. The installer will not install anything on your system without your permission. If you deny the request for admin rights the installer will install album in a GUI only mode. This means that you can only use Album in the graphical user interface and not in the commandline/powershell since they cannot be initialised without admin rights.

On MacOS, double clicking the executable might state that Apple can’t check the app for malicious software. You need to open the context menu from Finder, choose Open from there and confirm that you want to run this application.

On Linux, the downloaded file needs to be made executable by running chmod +x ./album_installer.

Manually activating the environment for commandline usage

To activate the Album environment for commandline use one of the following commands:

micromamba activate -p ~/.album/envs/album

Uninstallation

To uninstall everything, simply delete the .album directory in your home directory.

Manual Installation:

Installation using conda:

Prerequisites:

Install the Album environment:

For the most recently released Album version, run this command:

conda create -n album album -c conda-forge

Activate the environment:

conda activate album

Installation using micromamba:

Prerequisites:

Install the Album environment:

For the most recently released Album version, run this command:

micromamba create -n album album -c conda-forge

Activate the environment:

micromamba activate album

Windows notes

If after installing Anaconda, the Conda command is not found. Use the Anaconda Command Prompt or add these to the PATH variable of your system:

  • C:\Users\USERNAME\Anaconda-dir\condabin

  • C:\Users\USERNAME\Anaconda-dir\Scripts

  • C:\Users\USERNAME\Anaconda-dir\Library\bin