Installation

yt-napari requires both yt and napari. We recommend that you install both of these before installing yt-napari.

1. (optional) install yt and napari

If you skip this step, the installation in the following section will only install the minimal package requirements for yt or napari, in which case you will likely need to manually install some packages. So if you are new to either package, or if you are installing in a clean environment, it may be simpler to install these packages first.

For napari,

pip install napari[all]

will install napari with the default Qt backend (see here for how to choose between PyQt5 or PySide2).

For yt, you will need yt>=4.0.1 and any of the optional dependencies for your particular workflow. If you know that you’ll need more than the base yt install, you can install the full suite of dependent packages with

pip install yt[full]

See the yt documentation for more information. If you’re not sure which packages you’ll need but don’t want the full yt installation, you can proceed to the next step and then install any packages as needed (you will receive error messages when a required package is missing).

2. install yt-napari

You can install the yt-napari plugin with minimal dependencies using:

pip install yt-napari

To include optional dependencies required for loading sample data:

pip install yt-napari[full]

If you are missing either yt or napari (or they need to be updated), the above installation will fetch and run a minimal installation for both.

To install the latest development version of the plugin instead, use:

pip install git+https://github.com/data-exp-lab/yt-napari.git