# Dependencies and installation

In most cases, your existing PyTango devices and clients will continue to work as before, however there are important changes. In the other sections of the migration guide, you can find the incompatibilities and the necessary migration steps.

## Dependencies

PyTango v10.0.0 requires Python 3.9 or higher.

PyTango v10.0.0 moved from cppTango 9.5.x to at least 10.0.0. It will not run with earlier versions.

PyTango is compiled with Numpy 2.x , but can work with both 1.x and 2.x versions at runtime.

PyTango 10.0.0 has a many new optional dependencies, related to the support of OpenTelemetry:

> 1. “opentelemetry-api”

> 2. “opentelemetry-sdk”

> 3. “opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc”

> 4. “opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http”

The easiest way to install all of them when using pip is:

    pip install "pytango[telemetry]"

For conda packages, the dependencies are automatically included on Linux and macOS, and excluded on Windows.

Depending on the installed packages you may have the following options:

1. Telemetry support not compiled into cppTango:

   > - No telemetry (but dummy functions available for same API)

2. Telemetry support compiled into cppTango:

   > - Python OpenTelemetry API and SDK dependencies installed: full functionality

   > - Python OpenTelemetry API dependency installed, but not SDK dependency: partial functionality - functions calls propagate telemetry information, but no traces are emitted (the tracing backend will show missing traces)

   > - Python OpenTelemetry dependencies not installed: no telemetry, but dummy functions available for same API

Please refer to the MR description for instructions on getting started with OpenTelemetry: https://gitlab.com/tango-controls/pytango/-/merge_requests/708

## Installation

Similar to the 9.4.x and 9.5.x series, the binary wheels on PyPI and Conda-forge make installation very simple on many platforms. No need for compilation. See the installation guide.