Installation and Getting Started

Prerequisites

Before you can start writing using Grove, you will need Python 2.7 (version 2.7.10 or greater) and the Python package manager pip. We recommend installing Anaconda for an all-in-one installation of Python 2.7. If you don’t have pip, it can be installed with easy_install pip.

Installation

You can install Grove directly from the Python package manager pip using:

pip install quantum-grove

To instead install the bleeding-edge version from source, clone the Grove GitHub repository, cd into it, and run:

pip install -e .

This will install Grove’s dependencies if you do not already have them. The dependencies are:

• NumPy
• SciPy
• NetworkX
• Matplotlib
• pytest (optional, for testing)
• mock (optional, for testing)

Forest and pyQuil

Grove also requires the Python library for Quil, called pyQuil.

After obtaining the library from the pyQuil GitHub repository or from a source distribution, navigate into its directory in a terminal and run:

pip install -e .

You will need to make sure that your pyQuil installation is properly configured to run with a QVM or quantum processor (QPU) hosted on the Rigetti Forest, which requires an API key. See the pyQuil docs for instructions on how to do this.