{% extends "base.html" %} {% block head %} {% endblock %} {% block content %}
The preferred way to install Vipster is via a package manager.
It is available in these repositories:
Otherwise, please find precompiled builds here.
Vipster.exe
.
$ chmod +x Vipster-Linux-x86_64.AppImage
You can then run it directly:
$ ./Vipster-Linux-x86_64.AppImage
or integrate it into your system by installing AppImageLauncher.
Vipster can also run in your browser.
A standalone application can be found here.
This is a full visualization tool, but lacks many of the editing features of the desktop application.
If you want to include Vipster in your own web application, you can find it on npm:
npm install vipster
Note: rendering requires WebGL2 which unfortunately is blocked by Apple in its Safari browser. Sorry!
If you want to use the Vipster library in your Python environments, you can install them via:
$ pip install vipster
Note:
pip
, the GUI is not included
Vipster can also be integrated with Jupyter.
Please go to the VipsterView repository
to find out more.
To build Vipster from source, you need CMake (≥ 3.9)
and a C++-17 compatible compiler (including <filesystem>
support).
To build the GUI, you also need to install Qt ≥ 5.10.
For detailed build instructions, please refer to
INSTALL.md
.
Other dependencies are described in
external/README.md
.
It is recommended to obtain the source via Git:
$ git clone https://github.com/sgsaenger/vipster
This allows to easily track development and automatically obtain missing dependencies.