Install

Requirements

The software requirements for SCOOP are as follows:

• Python >= 2.6 or >= 3.2
• Distribute >= 0.6.2
• Greenlet >= 0.3.4
• pyzmq and libzmq >= 2.2.0
• ssh for remote execution

Installation

To install SCOOP and its other dependencies, use pip as such:

pip install scoop

Note

If you are using Windows, you may want to install pyzmq using the installer available at their download page. This installer installs libzmq alongside pyzmq.

Remote usage

Because remote host connection needs to be done without a prompt, you must use ssh keys to allow passwordless authentication. You should make sure that your public ssh key is contained in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the remote systems (Refer to the ssh manual). If you have a shared /home/ over your systems, you can do as such:

[~]$ mkdir ~/.ssh; cd ~/.ssh
[.ssh]$ ssh-keygen -t dsa
[.ssh]$ cat id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys

Note

If your remote hosts needs special configuration (non-default port, some specified username, etc.), you should do it in your ssh client configuration file (by default ~/.ssh/config).