.. _install-details:

Installation Details
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Prerequsites
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The histogram package requires the following packages:

* numpy (http://numpy.org)


Optionally, you may want to install:

* `h5py <http://code.google.com/p/h5py/>`_: for load/dump histograms 
* `matplotlib <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/>`_: for plotting


Install
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The histogram package can be installed by using easy_install::

 $ easy_install histogram

Or you can download histogram package from 
http://dev.danse.us/packages/histogram-0.2dev.tar.gz

Expand and enter it, and run::

 $ python setup.py install