# Installation

`Ruffus` is a lightweight python module for building computational pipelines.

Note

Ruffus requires Python 3.0 or higher, python 2 is no longer supported but older versions will still be python 2 compatible.

## conda installation

The recomended method for installing CGAT-ruffus is to install using conda through the bioconda channel. The reson for conda being the prefferred method is that the dependancied are taken care of.

>     conda install -c bioconda ruffus

## pip installation

> Ruffus is also available on pypi.

>     pip install ruffus

## Manual installation

To obtain the latest code, check it out from github and activate it.

>     git clone https://github.com/cgat-developers/ruffus.git
>     cd ruffus
>     python setup.py install