Installation steps gpm-accumul

Requirements: Python 3, h5py, GDAL and python-gdal

Suggestion: use virtualenv

1. Setup a virtualenv: python3 -m venv <dirname>
2. Activate the virtualenv:
   1. cd <dirname>
   2. source bin/activate
3. Install the code and dependencies: pip install -e git+https://github.com/ITHACA-org/gpm-accumul.git@master#egg=ERDS
4. Install GDAL:
   1. Install gdal-bin python-gdal libgdal-dev with minimum version 2 (take advantage of ubuntugis PPA )
   2. Install python-gdal in the virtualenv: pip install GDAL==$(gdal-config --version) --global-option=build_ext --global-option="-I/usr/include/gdal"

Run erds.py

From the command line, activate the virtualenv, then cd to src/erds and: python3 erds.py

or

With cron, insert a job. In this case enter the full path to the python3 in the virtual env e.g. /path/to/virtualenv/bin/python3