Desktop Install

Install Prerequisites

Ubuntu

$> sudo apt install python3 python3-pip openjdk-8-jre
$> pip3 install setuptools wheel

macOS

You will need to download and install Java JDK-8 (v9 or higher will not work with Spark)

With Homebrew

$> brew install python 
$> pip3 install setuptools wheel

With MacPorts

$> sudo port install py34-pip
$> pip3 install setuptools wheel

Windows 10

Enable Windows Subsystem for Linux

Install bash

$> sudo apt install python3 openjdk-8-jre-headless
$> ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python
$> curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
$> python get-pip.py

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Install Vizier

Using coursier

$> coursier install vizier --channel https://vizierdb.info/coursier.json

You may need to add your user bin directory (typically ~/.local/bin) to your PATH environment variable

Or using Bootstrap

$> wget https://maven.mimirdb.info/info/vizierdb/vizier
$> chmod +x vizier
$> mv vizier [your favourite bin directory]

Run

$> vizier

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FAQ

How do I uninstall Vizier?

$> coursier uninstall vizier
$> rm -r ~/.cache/coursier

Why don't you support Java 11?

Spark, which we use for most data processing, does not currently support Java JRE 9 or later. We plan to add support for Java 11 as soon as Spark does.

Why don't you support Python 3?

We're working on it.

I get a bunch of goop saying "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException"

Spark does not support Java JRE 9 or later. You need Java JRE 8 installed (note that you can have multiple JREs installed at the same time). You can download Java JRE 8 from here.