Installation¶

The minimal working python version is 3.5.x

beem can be installed parallel to python-steem.

For Debian and Ubuntu, please ensure that the following packages are installed:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev python-dev curl

For Fedora and RHEL-derivatives, please ensure that the following packages are installed:

sudo yum install gcc openssl-devel python-devel

For OSX, please do the following:

brew install openssl
export CFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include $CFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib $LDFLAGS"

For Termux on Android, please install the following packages:

pkg install clang openssl-dev python-dev

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

python get-pip.py

Signing and Verify can be fasten (200 %) by installing cryptography. Install cryptography with pip:

pip install -U cryptography

Install beem with pip:

pip install -U beem

Sometimes this does not work. Please try:

pip3 install -U beem

or:

python -m pip install beem

Manual installation¶

You can install beem from this repository if you want the latest but possibly non-compiling version:

git clone https://github.com/holgern/beem.git
cd beem
python setup.py build

python setup.py install --user

Run tests after install:

pytest

Installing beem from the conda-forge channel can be achieved by adding conda-forge to your channels with:

conda config --add channels conda-forge

Once the conda-forge channel has been enabled, beem can be installed with:

conda install beem

Signing and Verify can be fasten (200 %) by installing cryptography:

conda install cryptography

Add the following for enabling logging in your python script:

import logging
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

When you want to see only critical errors, replace the last line by:

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.CRITICAL)