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Installation
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Requirements
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The Reference File Testing Tool has the following dependencies:

- `Python <http://www.python.org/>`_ 2.7

- `SQLAlchemy <http://www.sqlalchemy.org/>`_

- `Astropy <http://http://www.astropy.org/>`_

- `JWST Calibration Pipeline <http://ssb.stsci.edu/doc/jwst_dev/>`_

Installing the Reference File Testing Tool
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The Tool is currently in early development and must be installed from the GitHub development repository.

Using pip
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To install the Tool with `pip <http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/>`_, simply run::

    pip install git+git://github.com/STScI-MESA/reference-file-testing-tool.git@v0.1

Building from source
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The latest development version of the Tool can be cloned from GitHub using this command::

    git clone git://github.com/STScI-MESA/reference-file-testing-tool.git

To install the Tool (from the root of the source tree)::

    python setup.py install