Windows Installation

Windows Installation

This section describes the steps necessary to install the exif2timestream package on a windows machine. You may already have some of the packages required, feel free to skip these steps.

1. Install Git

The easiest way to get the exif2timestream package on windows is to checkout the git repository. You can download git from Git For Windows

Follow the prompts as directed for installation.

2. Checkout the Repository

1. Open GitBash
2. Navigate to the directory you wish to place exif2timestream
3. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/borevitzlab/exif2timestream.git

3. Install Python

The easiest way to install python on windows is to grab the installer from Python.Org. Currently exif2timestream supports python 2.7, with support for python 3 coming soon.

• Refer to installation instructions here: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/win/#setuptools-pip to get python fully working.
  • You will want to right-click and save both the python script files in the SetupTools section to your python scripts folder (most likely location is here: C:\Python27\Scripts)
  • After you have saved these scripts, open a command window, navigate to the scripts folder and run each of the scripts: python ez_setup.py and: python get-pip.py.

Follow the direction provided on the site for installation, but make sure you add python to the path variables.

4. Install Dependencies

This can be done by navigating to the exif2timestream directory in your git bash, and running ./install

If you wish to also run the testing suite, you will need to also run python setup.py test

Confirm Install

If you wish to confirm the installation was successful, simply navigate inside the exif2timestream directory, and run: python exif2timestream.py

You should recieve the following output:

Processed a total of 0 images in 0.00 seconds