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Advanced Installation

Welcome to BERA Tools! This guide will give you advanced installation options and configurations.

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.10 - 3.13
  • conda or pip

Installation Methods

Using conda

Have Miniconda installed on your system, then create an environment from the provided environment.yml:

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate bera

Using Pip

BERA Tools is published to Pypi and can be installed by pip. But on Windows, GDAL should be installed first. Please refer to GDAL for Windows for more information.

OSGeo4W is recommended for Windows, alongside conda.

pip install beratools

Verify Installation

After installation, verify that BERA Tools is installed correctly:

beratools

This will start the main GUI.

Advanced Installation

Developer Guide — Detailed instructions for installing from source, running tests, and contributing.

Update BERA Tools

Run the following commands to update BERA Tools.

conda update beratools
pip install --upgrade beratools

Remove BERA Tools

Remove BERA Tools from environment:

conda remove beratools
pip uninstall beratools

Remove whole conda environment:

conda activate  # go to base env
conda env remove -n bera