[Geomag-data] Near-real-time mag data?

[Simpson, Hal]

Obspy maintains a separate APT repository for Debian/Ubuntu, which must be
configured before it can be used.  Their instructions for installation are
on this page:

https://github.com/obspy/obspy/wiki/Installation-on-Linux-via-Apt-Repository



On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:03 PM, D. R. Evans <doc.evans at gmail.com> wrote:

> D. R. Evans wrote on 01/14/2016 08:48 AM:
> > Simpson, Hal wrote on 01/13/2016 03:39 PM:
> >> In order to use geomag-algorithms,  you need python installed,  with the
> >> supporting libraries, numpy, scipy, obspy, and flake8.   We generally
> >> suggest installing anaconda, as it comes with numpy and scipy,  and
> >> installing obspy and flake8 is simple using it's conda routine.
> >
> > Thank you for the speedy reply; I am afraid that you have rather lost me,
> > though :-(
> >
> > Debian stable provides:
> >   python-numpy
> >   python-scipy
> >   python-flake8
> > but no
> >   python-obspy
> >
>
> So, in the absence of any further guidance, I installed the first three
> packages; but, not unexpectedly, when I try to run geomag.py, I still get
> the
> error:
>
> ----
>
> [HN:bin] ./geomag.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./geomag.py", line 13, in <module>
>     from geomagio.Controller import main, parse_args
>   File "/tmp/usgs/geomag-algorithms-master/geomagio/__init__.py", line 5,
> in
> <module>
>     import StreamConverter
>   File "/tmp/usgs/geomag-algorithms-master/geomagio/StreamConverter.py",
> line
> 11, in <module>
>     import obspy.core
> ImportError: No module named obspy.core
> [HN:bin]
>
> ----
>
> I can't find any instructions that suggest what to do next, (in particular,
> how to install obspy) so all I can think of to do is to repeat a part of my
> prior e-mail:
>
> > So how do I install obspy, since there seems to be no official debian
> package?
> > (I'm a C++ programmer; I have no idea about how packaging works for
> python. I
> > expect and hope that there's some simple way to install external
> packages such
> > as obspy, as there is for R.)
> >
> > I'm wondering if there's a misunderstanding somewhere. Do I really need
> to
> > install all this just to download near-real-time data once per minute?
> When I
> > first asked about obtaining the data, I was expecting a response along
> the
> > lines of: "the new URL is: <XXX>", so I could just wget the data every
> minute
> > in the same way as in the past.
> >
>
>   Doc Evans
>
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