The local version of Essentia will run on Linux systems. It’s tested on 6 Linux based operating systems including Amazon Linux 2015.09.1, CentOS 7.1, Debian “Jessie”,Ubuntu 15.04, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, and Fedora 23. Installing the local version of Essentia on these systems is simple.
Essentia’s local version cannot launch worker instances and thus does not have the full scalability of Essentia. If you need to parallelize your analyis, you can use the cloud version of Essentia or contact essentia@auriq.com.
Note
You must have root privileges to run the installer. If you do not, please contact your system administrator.
Go to the directory where the installer is located.
Run:
unzip essentia-311.zip
Read the README and LICENSE.txt files.
Run:
sudo bash essentia-311.sh
Type y to install Essentia.
You can then go through our Essentia Tutorials, Data Processing Tutorials, and Essentia Examples to get familiar with Essentia.
Note
This software is subject to the End-User License Agreement located in Local Install License.
This software requires python2.7.5 or higher, pip2.7 and wget.
If your system does not have python2.7.5 or higher, please read the python download page:
https://www.python.org/downloads/
If your system does not have pip, please read the following instruction:
https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
Alternatively, the installation script provides an option to automatically install pip and wget for the above listed operating systems.
To Uninstall Essentia:
Run:
sudo bash essentia-311.sh
Type n when asked to install Essentia.
Type y to uninstall Essentia.
Type y to confirm that you want to uninstall Essentia.