Download the latest stable release and save it somewhere in your home directory:

From the command-line terminal untar and uncompress the package (typically using the GNU tar program):

$ tar zxf PyPopLinux-0.7.0.tar.gz

Change directory into the extracted directory

$ cd PyPopLinux-0.7.0

Now you can run the interactive version of the program, by typing ./pypop, at the command line.

A short message describing PyPop will be displayed, followed by prompts to supply the name of the configuration file and then the population file. Select the file, sample.ini and sample.pop, respectively (noted in the sample screen output below, in bold).

PyPop: Python for Population Genomics (0.4.3)
Copyright (C) 2003 Regents of the University of California
This is free software.  There is NO warranty; not even for
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 
You may redistribute copies of PyPop under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.  For more information about these
matters, see the file named COPYING.
 
To accept the default in brackets for each filename, simply press
return for each prompt.
Please enter config filename [config.ini]: sample.ini
Please enter population filename [no default]: sample.pop
PyPop is processing sample.pop 

(Note: some messages with the prefix "LOG:" may appear here.
They are informational only and do not indicate improper operation 
of the program)

PyPop run complete!
XML output can be found in: sample-out.xml
Plain text output can be found in: sample-out.txt

PyPop will remember the names of the configuration and population files you used last, and will provide those as defaults in subsequent runs.

Before starting an install on Windows, you must first make sure you have a copy of a zip file extractor such as PowerArchiver or WinZip.

Download the latest stable Windows release of PyPop and save it in one of your directories or on the Desktop:

Once you have downloaded the file, you should double-click it. If you have correctly installed one of the zip compression utilities, it should open using that zip program. Extract the contents of the zip file to your desktop, or wherever you normally save your programs and data. Consult the documentation for your archiving utility for details on how to do this (it should be reasonably self-explanatory).

Once you have the PyPopWin32-0.7.0 directory extracted, open the directory and double-click on the pypop.bat file.

A DOS shell should then open running the program inside it.

A short message describing PyPop will be displayed, followed by prompts to supply the name of the configuration file and then the population file. Select the file, sample.ini and sample.pop, respectively (noted in the sample screen output below, in bold).

PyPop: Python for Population Genomics (0.4.3)
Copyright (C) 2003 Regents of the University of California
This is free software.  There is NO warranty; not even for
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 
You may redistribute copies of PyPop under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.  For more information about these
matters, see the file named COPYING.
 
To accept the default in brackets for each filename, simply press
return for each prompt.
Please enter config filename [config.ini]: sample.ini
Please enter population filename [no default]: sample.pop
PyPop is processing sample.pop 

(Note: some messages with the prefix "LOG:" may appear here.
They are informational only and do not indicate improper operation 
of the program)

PyPop run complete!
XML output can be found in: sample-out.xml
Plain text output can be found in: sample-out.txt