# 2.3 Installation from source archive

First, download the required archive can be downloaded from the front page of Pyxplot website – http://www.pyxplot.org.uk. It is assumed that the packages listed above have already been installed; if they are not, you will need to either install them yourself, if you have superuser access to your machine, or contact your system administrator.

- Unpack the distributed .tar.gz:

      tar xvfz pyxplot_0.9.2.tar.gz
      cd pyxplot-0.9.2

- Run the installation script:

      ./configure
      make

- Finally, start Pyxplot:

      ./bin/pyxplot

- 2.3.1 System-wide installation