# Installing and running psychopy on Ubuntu 18.04 with conda python 3.6

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**Category:** Coding\
**Tags:** anaconda\
**Created:** [November 12, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/installing-and-running-psychopy-on-ubuntu-18-04-with-conda-python-3-6/5792 "2018-11-12T13:19:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/installing-and-running-psychopy-on-ubuntu-18-04-with-conda-python-3-6/5792/1 "2018-11-12T13:19:55Z")

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Hi guys,

Just posting this here, as it is probably a more relevant space for it than on github issues.

I have recently gone through the trouble of installing psychopy on an Ubuntu 18.04 desktop (Intel® Core™ i7-4790S CPU @ 3.20GHz × 8) 64 bit, running python 3.6 with a anaconda install. I just thought I would detail how I managed to make it work so that others may save some time in the future.

1 - install anaconda  
`bash ~/Downloads/Anaconda3-5.3.0-Linux-x86_64.sh`

2 - set system python to 3.6  
`conda install python=3.6`

3 - upgarde pip  
`pip install --upgrade pip`

4 - grab a copy of psychopy from github  
`cd ~/Documents/GitHub & git clone git@github.com:psychopy/psychopy.git`

5 - install wxpython using conda (running psychopyApp.py was leading to : ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘wx’)  
`conda install wxpython`

6 - install libwebkitgtk using sudo apt-get (running psychopyApp.py was leading to : ImportError: libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)  
`sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-1.0-0`

7 - installing the newer intel drivers (following intuition from reading [https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy/issues/2061](https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy/issues/2061) and getting the ppa for drivers from the ubuntu launchpad [https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers](https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers))  
`sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers`  
`sudo apt-get updated`  
`sudo apt-get upgrade`

8 - explictly set the driver in an xorg conf :  
`nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf`  
once in the editor, add the following code and save

```bash
Section "Device"
   Identifier "Intel Graphics"
   Driver "intel"
EndSection

```

9 - reboot and enjoy psychopy.