Installation
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How to install Expyriment?
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Expyriment depends on a couple of software packages which have to be installed 
on the system. These packages are:
    * `Python 2`_ (>=2.6),
    * Pygame_ (>=1.9)
    * PyOpenGL_ (>=3.0). 

Optional additional packages include PySerial_ (>=2.5) (to use serial port 
communication), PyParallel_ (>=0.2) (to use parallel port communication) and 
NumPy_ (>=1.6) (to use data preprocessing). Please be aware that Expyriment 
plugins (extras) might have additional dependencies. 

You find more details platform-specific instructions for installing Expyriment 
here:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :titlesonly:

   Windows <Installation.Windows>
   Linux <Installation.Linux>
   Mac OS X <Installation.OSX>


.. _`Python 2`: http://www.python.org/
.. _Pygame: http://www.pygame.org/
.. _PyOpenGl: http://www.pyopengl.sourceforge.net
   
.. _PyParallel: http://pyserial.sourceforge.net
.. _PyParalel: http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html  
.. _NumPy: http://numpy.org/