InstallationΒΆ

In short: pip install louvain. Alternatively, use Anaconda and get the conda packages from the conda-forge channel, which supports both Unix, Mac OS and Windows.

For Unix like systems it is possible to install from source. For Windows this is overly complicated, and you are recommended to use the binary wheels. There are two things that are needed by this package: the igraph C core library and the python-igraph python package. For both, please see http://igraph.org.

Make sure you have all necessary tools for compilation. In Ubuntu this can be installed using sudo apt-get install build-essential, please refer to the documentation for your specific system. Make sure that not only gcc is installed, but also g++, as the louvain-igraph package is programmed in C++.

You can check if all went well by running a variety of tests using python setup.py test.

There are basically two installation modes, similar to the python-igraph package itself (from which most of the setup.py comes).

  1. No C core library is installed yet. The packages will be compiled and linked statically to an automatically downloaded version of the C core library of igraph.

  2. A C core library is already installed. In this case, the package will link dynamically to the already installed version. This is probably also the version that is used by the igraph package, but you may want to double check this.

In case the python-igraph package is already installed before, make sure that both use the same versions.

The cleanest setup it to install and compile the C core library yourself (make sure that the header files are also included, e.g. install also the development package from igraph). Then both the python-igraph package, as well as this package are compiled and (dynamically) linked to the same C core library.