Installing Dependencies
This document will guide you through the installation of the required tools to enjoy the full Babel experience. Please follow the instructions for your operating system.
macOS
- Make sure you have the XCode Command Line Tools installed. To install these, run
xcode-select --install
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Make sure you have Homebrew installed.
- Install GraphViz by running
brew install graphviz
- Install gnuplot by running
brew install gnuplot
- Enable local web servers by following the instructions for your version of macOS here.
Linux (Debian-based)
- Install GraphViz by running
sudo apt-get install graphviz
- Install gnuplot by running
sudo apt-get install gnuplot gnuplot-x11
Windows
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Download and install GraphViz. We recommend you place this in
C:\Program Files (x86)
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Download and install gnuplot. Check the box to add gnuplot to the environment variables (or
Path
). We recommend you place this inC:\Program Files (x86)
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Set your
Path
system environment variable so that the installed programs can be found easily. Go to the Settings and then edit the value for the variablePath
(which is in the list of System Variables) by appending the directories of gnuplot and GraphViz binaries. Make sure these paths are indeed correct. Here is an example of how yourPath
variable could look:C:\Program Files (x86)\GraphvizX.XX\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\gnuplot\bin