I ran into an issue with 1.8.2 version from Ubuntu apt-get which crashed, and the NeuroDebian repo only has 1.8.3 which had other problems.
However I think I have successfully installed the 1.8.5 Psychopy libraries via Pip2 as follows (iolabs wasn’t available for Ubuntu, and I didn’t use the ‘developer’ approach of getting direct from Git)…
However, there don’t seem to be any instructions for how to run it after such an install.
The sudo pip2 install psychopy didn’t put any binary link from /usr/bin
Is there an invocation like…
python2 -m psychopy.SomethingApp
which I have missed in the documentation somewhere. I couldn’t find anything on the page which details the pip install ( http://psychopy.org/installation.html#manual-install ) which says how to run it after you’ve installed.
The answer appears to be running the following to install the missing ‘future’ module (should be listed in psychopy dependencies)…
sudo pip2 install future
Then you can run…
python -m psychopy.app.psychopyApp
You could run this from the Mac OS console, or from CMD, a Terminal or using Alt+F2 on many Linux desktops, for example.
On my Ubuntu Linux machine, for my personal preference of running as a background process and not closing down when I close the terminal window I run the following from the console…
I would guess these instructions should work fundamentally on any platform, (Windows, Mac), except the installation of wxpython, the Wx widget toolkit (the sudo apt install python-wxgtk3.0 line). You can see https://wiki.wxpython.org/How%20to%20install%20wxPython for instructions to install wxpython on other platforms. Finally pip2 and python2 may be named pip and python on other platforms which don’t (yet) have python3.
Oh, actually that’s a good way to do it, although if you did have psychopy in two locations (e.g. in a developer directory as well as in site-packages then the -m method would confuse them. Hmm, then again python would confuse them too!