This document will cover the steps involved in installation of python-igraph
package for python 2.7. For python 3.x, the steps will likely be similar, but possibly not identical.
The python-igraph package requires cairo
library, and Pycairo
python package, and igraph
C core. cairo
is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices and Pycairo
is a set of python bindings for cairo
graphics library.
In this document, it is assumed that the user does not have root access and thus uses --prefix
to indicate a local directory where /lib
and /bin
can be located, for which the user has write privilage.