Installation

Installing an official release

There two different options you can follow to install ChemPlot.

Option 1: Use conda

You can install ChemPlot using conda. To install ChemPlot, at the command line, run:

~$ conda install -c conda-forge chemplot

Option 2: Use pip

An alternative method is to install is using pip:

~$ pip install chemplot

Note

ChemPlot requires RDKit, which cannot be installed using pip. The official RDKit documentation contains installation instructions for multiple platforms.

Verify Installation

You can verify that ChemPlot was installed on your local computer by running:

~$ pip show chemplot
Name: chemplot
...

If instead of what is shown above your output is:

WARNING: Package(s) not found: chemplot

ChemPlot was not installed correctly or your system cannot find the path to it. If ChemPlot is installed correctly you can also test the package by running:

~$ pip install pytest
~$ python -m pytest --pyargs chemplot

These will run all the library tests against your installation. For every official release from 1.2.0 you can use this command to verify that every function of your local installation of ChemPlot works as expected.