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Install Scikit-Image#

Scikit-image is a Python library for computer vision. Installation using pip is quite straightforward.

Note that you will be prompted for your password upon using sudo a couple of times.

Install stable version#

Installing the stable version is simple (Use pip3 instead to install the Python 3 version):

$ sudo -H pip install scikit-image

Install development version (pre-0.13)#

The development version has to be compiled from the source code. Here are the steps (Use pip3 instead to install the Python 3 version):

  1. Clone development repository: 
    $ git clone https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image.git
  2. Upgrade Cython to version cython>=0.21 (if that version isn't already installed) 
    $ sudo -H pip install --upgrade cython
  3. Installation: 
    $ cd scikit-image
$ sudo -H pip install -e .