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Installing the software
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Fracridge is available in two popular programming languages: MATLAB (tm) and
Python.

MATLAB
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Download the recent release of the software `here <https://github.com/nrdg/fracridge/releases>`_,
extract the files and place them in a folder of your choosing. Then, direct MATLAB
to include the ``matlab`` folder in the top-level folder of the extracted
archive in its path.


Python
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To install the released version of the software, you can use the Python ``pip``
package manager. In a shell command line issue::

    pip install fracridge

This should download and install the software for your use.

To upgrade the software to newer versions issue::

    pip install -U fracridge

Alternatively, if you would like to download the source code, or install the
bleeding edge of recent developments, To install from source, issue::

    git clone https://github.com/nrdg/fracridge
    cd fracridge
    pip install -e .


If you use the latter installation method, you can update to the most recent
version of the development of the code by pulling from GitHub. Installing with
`-e` means that a symlink will be created from a location in your `PYTHONPATH`
directly to the source code and changes to the code should propagate to your import of the code from your `PYTHONPATH`.

To see how to use the installed software, please read the `user guide <user_guide.html>`_
and read the `examples <auto_examples/index.html>`_