Installation

Quick install

This section of the manual will guide you through the process of installing AiiDA on your system as quick as possible. For more detailed instructions and explanations refer to the later sections. The installation procedure can generally be split into three separate steps:

  1. Install prerequisite software
  2. Install AiiDA and its python dependencies
  3. Configure the AiiDA installation

Install prerequisite software

The installation procedure itself requires certain software, which therefore will have to be installed first. The following software is required to continue with the installation:

  • git (To download the aiida package)
  • python-2.7.x (The programming language used for AiiDA)
  • python-pip (Python package manager)
  • virtualenv (Software to create a virtual python environment to install AiiDA in)
  • postgresql (Database software version 9.4 or higher)

Installation instructions will depend on your system. For Ubuntu and any other Debian derived distributions you can use:

$ sudo apt-get install git python2.7-dev python-pip virtualenv postgresql postgresql-server-dev-all postgresql-client

For MacOS X using Homebrew as the package manager:

$ brew install git python postgresql
$ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start

For a more detailed description of database requirements and usage see section database.

Install AiiDA and its python dependencies

With the prerequisites installed, we can now download AiiDA itself and install it along with all its python dependencies. Create a directory where you want to install AiiDA and clone the repository:

$ mkdir <your_directory>
$ cd <your_directory>
$ git clone https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida_core

To prevent the python packages that AiiDA depends on, from clashing with the packages you already have installed on your system, we will install them in a virtual environment. For detailed information about virtual environment refer to the section Virtual environment. To create a new virtual environment and activate it, run the following commands:

$ virtualenv ~/aiidapy
$ source ~/aiidapy/bin/activate

This will create a directory in your home directory named aiidapy where all the packages will be installed. After activation, your prompt now should have (aiidapy) in front of it, indicating that you are working in the virtual environment.

Note

You may need to install pip and setuptools in your virtual environment in case the system or user version of these tools is old:

$ pip install -U setuptools pip

Finally, to install AiiDA, run the following command from the directory where you cloned the repository:

(aiidapy) $ pip install -e aiida_core

(In this example the AiiDA directory is in aiida_core)

There are additional optional packages that you may want to install, which are grouped in the following categories:

  • atomic_tools: packages that allow importing and manipulating crystal structure from various formats
  • ssh_kerberos: adds support for ssh transport authentication through Kerberos
  • REST: allows a REST server to be ran locally to serve AiiDA data
  • docs: tools to build the documentation
  • advanced_plotting: tools for advanced plotting
  • notebook: jupyter notebook - to allow it to import AiiDA modules
  • testing: python modules required to run the automatic unit tests

In order to install any of these package groups, simply append them as a comma separated list in the pip install command:

(aiidapy) $ pip install -e aiida_core[atomic_tools,docs,advanced_plotting]

Configure the AiiDA installation

After successful installation, AiiDA needs to be configured, such as setting up a profile and creating a database, which can be done through AiiDA’s command line interface verdi. For a fast and default setup use verdi quicksetup and for greater control use verdi setup (see verdi-setup). Here we will use the quicksetup by executing:

(aiidapy) $ verdi quicksetup

You will be asked for your user information. Be aware that this information will be associated with your data if you decide later to share it. Alternatively you can give your information as commandline options (use verdi quicksetup --help option for a list of options).

Note

verdi setup used to be called verdi install, but the new name better reflects the command’s purpose.

Congratulations, you should now have a working installation of AiiDA. You can verify that the installation was successful by running:

$ verdi profile list

This should list the profile that was just created by the quicksetup:

> quicksetup (DEFAULT) (DAEMON PROFILE)

Remember that in order to work with AiiDA through for example the verdi command, you need to be in your virtual environment. If you open a new terminal for example, be sure to activate it first with:

$ source ~/aiidapy/bin/activate

At this point, you can choose to read on for additional installation details and configuration options, or you can choose to start using AiiDA and go straight to the section Get started.

Optional configuration

Verdi tab-completion

The verdi command line tool has many commands and options. To simplify its usage, there is a way to enable tab-completion for it in your bash shell. To do so, simply run the following command:

$ verdi completioncommand

and append the result to the activation script of your virtual environment (or to your bash config, e.g. .bashrc). Alternatively, you can accomplish the same by simply adding the following line to the activation script:

eval "$(verdi completioncommand)"

For the changes to apply to your current shell, make sure to source the activation script or .bashrc (depending the approach you chose).

Adding AiiDA to the PATH

If you used a virtual environment for the installation of AiiDA, the required commands such as verdi should have been added automatically to your PATH. Otherwise, you may have to add the install directory of AiiDA manually to your PATH so that the binaries are found.

For Linux systems, the path to add is usually ~/.local/bin:

export PATH=~/.local/bin:${PATH}

For Mac OS X systems, the path to add is usually ~/Library/Python/2.7/bin:

export PATH=~/Library/Python/2.7/bin:${PATH}

To verify if this is the correct path to add, navigate to this location and you should find the executable supervisord, or celeryd, in the directory.

After updating your PATH you can check if it worked in the following way:

  • type verdi on your terminal, and check if the program starts (it should provide a list of valid commands). If it doesn’t, check if you correctly set up the PATH environment variable above.

  • go into your home folder or in another folder different from the AiiDA folder, run python or ipython and try to import a module, e.g. typing:

    import aiida
    

    If the setup is ok, you shouldn’t get any error. If you do get an ImportError instead, check that you are in the correct virtual environment. If you did not install AiiDA within a virtual environment, you will have to set up the PYTHONPATH environment variable in your .bashrc:

    export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:<AiiDA_folder>"
    

Using AiiDA in Jupyter

Jupyter is an open-source web application that allows you to create in-browser notebooks containing live code, visualizations and formatted text.

Originally born out of the iPython project, it now supports code written in many languages and customized iPython kernels.

If you didn’t already install AiiDA with the [notebook] option (during pip install), run pip install jupyter inside the virtualenv, and then run from within the virtualenv:

$ jupyter notebook

This will open a tab in your browser. Click on New -> Python 2 and type:

import aiida

followed by Shit-Enter. If no exception is thrown, you can use AiiDA in Jupyter.

If you want to set the same environment as in a verdi shell, add the following code in <your.home.folder>/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_config.py:

c = get_config()
c.InteractiveShellApp.extensions = [
        'aiida.common.ipython.ipython_magics'
]

then open a Jupyter notebook as explained above and type in a cell:

%aiida

followed by Shift-Enter. You should receive the message “Loaded AiiDA DB environment.”

Virtual environment

Why a virtual environment?

AiiDA depends on third party python packages and very often on specific versions of those packages. If AiiDA were to be installed system wide, it may up- or downgrade third party packages used by other parts of the system and leave them potentially broken. Conversely, if a different version of a package is later installed which is incompatible with AiiDA, it too will become broken.

In short, installing AiiDA might interfere with installed python packages and installing other packages might interfere with AiiDA. Since your scientific data is important to you and to us, we strongly recommend isolating AiiDA in what is called a virtual environment.

For a single purpose machine, only meant to run AiiDA and nothing else, you may at your own risk opt to omit working in a virtual environment. In this case, you may want to install AiiDA and its dependencies in user space by using a --user flag, to avoid the need for administrative rights to install them system wide.

What is a virtual environment?

A python virtual environment is essentially a folder, that contains everything that is needed to run python programs, including

  • python executable
  • python standard packages
  • package managers such as pip
  • an activation script that sets the PYTHONPATH and PATH variables

The python executable might be a link to an executable elsewhere, depending on the way the environment is created. The activation script ensures that the python executable of the virtualenv is the first in PATH, and that python programs have access only to packages installed inside the virtualenv (unless specified otherwise during creation). This allows to have an isolated environment for programs that rely on running with a specific version of python or specific versions of third party python packages.

A virtual environment as well as the packages that will be installed within it, will often be installed in the home space of the user such that administrative rights are not required, therefore also making this technique very useful on machines where one has restricted access.

Creating a virtual environment

There are different programs that can create and work with virtual environments. An example for python virtual environments is called virtualenv and can be installed with for example pip by running:

$ pip install --user -U virtualenv

As explained before, a virtual environment is in essence little more than a directory containing everything it needs. In principle a virtual environment can thus be created anywhere where you can create a directory. You could for example opt to create a directory for all your virtual environments in your home folder:

$ mkdir ~/.virtualenvs

Using virtualenv you can then create a new virtual environment by running:

$ virtualenv ~/.virtualenvs/my_env

This will create the environment my_env and automatically activate it for you. If you open a new terminal, or you have deactivated the environment, you can reactivate it as follows:

$ ~/.virtualenvs/my_env/bin/activate

If it is activated successfully, you should see that your prompt is prefixed with the name of the environment:

(my_env) $

To leave or deactivate the environment and set all the settings back to default, simply run:

(my_env) $ deactivate

Database

AiiDA needs a database backend to store the nodes, node attributes and other information, allowing the end user to perform very fast queries of the results. Currently, only postgresql is allowed as a database backend.

Setup instructions

In order for AiiDA to be able to use postgres it needs to be installed first. On Ubuntu and other Debian derivative distributions this can be accomplished with:

$ sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-server-dev-all postgresql-client

For Mac OS X, binary packages can be downloaded from the official website of postgresql or you can use brew:

$ brew install postgresql
$ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start

To manually create a database for AiiDA that will later be used in the configuration with verdi setup, you should follow these instructions. First you will need to run the program psql to interact with postgres and you have to do so as the postgres user that was created upon installing the software. To assume the role of postgres run as root:

$ su - postgres

and launch the postgres program:

$ psql

Create a new database user account for AiiDA by running:

CREATE USER aiida WITH PASSWORD '<password>';

replacing <password> with a password of your choice. Make sure to remember it, as you will need it again when you configure AiiDA to use this database through verdi setup. If you want to change the password you just created use the command:

ALTER USER aiida PASSWORD '<password>';

Next we create the database itself:

CREATE DATABASE aiidadb OWNER aiida;

and grant all privileges on this DB to the previously-created aiida user:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE aiidadb to aiida;

You have now created a database for AiiDA and you can close the postgres shell by typing \q. To test if the database was created successfully, you can run the following command as a regular user in a bash terminal:

$ psql -h localhost -d aiidadb -U aiida -W

and type the password you inserted before, when prompted. If everything worked well, you should get no error and see the prompt of the psql shell.

If you uses the same names used in the example commands above, during the verdi setup phase you want to use the following parameters to use the database you just created:

Database engine: postgresql_psycopg2
PostgreSQL host: localhost
PostgreSQL port: 5432
AiiDA Database name: aiidadb
AiiDA Database user: aiida
AiiDA Database password: <password>

Note

Do not forget to backup your database (instructions here).

Note

If you want to move the physical location of the data files on your hard drive AFTER it has been created and filled, look at the instructions here.

Note

Due to the presence of a bug, PostgreSQL could refuse to restart after a crash, or after a restore from binary backup. The workaround given below is adapted from here. The error message would be something like:

* Starting PostgreSQL 9.1 database server
* The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output:
2015-05-26 03:27:20 UTC [331-1] LOG:  database system was interrupted; last known up at 2015-05-21 19:56:58 UTC
2015-05-26 03:27:20 UTC [331-2] FATAL:  could not open file "/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem": Permission denied
2015-05-26 03:27:20 UTC [330-1] LOG:  startup process (PID 331) exited with exit code 1
2015-05-26 03:27:20 UTC [330-2] LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure

If this happens you should change the permissions on any symlinked files to being writable by the Postgres user. For example, on Ubuntu, with PostgreSQL 9.1, the following should work (WARNING: Make sure these configuration files are symbolic links before executing these commands! If someone has customized the server.crt or server.key file, you can erase them by following these steps. It’s a good idea to make a backup of the server.crt and server.key files before removing them):

(as root)
# go to PGDATA directory
cd /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main
ls -l server.crt server.key
# confirm both of those files are symbolic links
# to files in /etc/ssl before going further
# remove symlinks to SSL certs
rm server.crt
rm server.key
# copy the SSL certs to the local directory
cp /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem server.crt
cp /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key server.key
# set permissions on ssl certs
# and postgres ownership on everything else
# just in case
chown postgres *
chmod 640 server.crt server.key

service postgresql start

Verdi setup

The quick install section detailed how verdi quicksetup can be used to quickly setup AiiDA by creating a profile and a database for you. If you want more control over this process, for example if you want to use a database that you created yourself, you can use verdi setup:

$ verdi setup <profile_name>

or equivalently:

$ verdi -p <profile_name> setup

The same commands can also be used to edit already existing profiles. The verdi setup command will guide you through the setup process through a series of prompts.

The first thing that will be asked to you is the timezone, extremely important to get correct dates and times for your calculations.

AiiDA will do its best to try and understand the local timezone (if properly configured on your machine), and will suggest a set of sensible values. Choose the timezone that fits best to you (that is, the nearest city in your timezone - for Lausanne, for instance, we choose Europe/Zurich) and type it at the prompt.

As a second parameter to input during the verdi setup phase, the “Default user email” is asked. We suggest here to use your institution email, that will be used to associate the calculations to you.

Note

In AiiDA, the user email is used as username, and also as unique identifier when importing/exporting data from AiiDA.

Note

Even if you choose an email different from the default one (aiida@localhost), a user with email aiida@localhost will be set up, with its password set to None (disabling access via this user via API or Web interface).

The existence of a default user is internally useful for multi-user setups, where only one user runs the daemon, even if many users can simultaneously access the DB. See the page on setting up AiiDA in multi-user mode for more details (only for advanced users).

Note

The password, in the current version of AiiDA, is not used (it will be used only in the REST API and in the web interface). If you leave the field empty, no password will be set and no access will be granted to the user via the REST API and the web interface.

Then, the following prompts will help you configure the database. Typical settings are:

Insert your timezone: Europe/Zurich
Default user email: richard.wagner@leipzig.de
Database engine: postgresql_psycopg2
PostgreSQL host: localhost
PostgreSQL port: 5432
AiiDA Database name: aiida_dev
AiiDA Database user: aiida
AiiDA Database password: <password>
AiiDA repository directory: /home/wagner/.aiida/repository/
[...]
Configuring a new user with email 'richard.wagner@leipzig.de'
First name: Richard
Last name: Wagner
Institution: BRUHL, LEIPZIG
The user has no password, do you want to set one? [y/N] y
Insert the new password:
Insert the new password (again):

Installation requirements

Read on for more information about the kind of operating system AiiDA can run on and what software needs to be installed before AiiDA can work.

Supported architecture

AiiDA is tested to run on:

  • Mac OS X (tested)
  • Ubuntu 14.04 & 16.04

AiiDA should run on:

  • Older / newer Ubuntu versions
  • Other Linux distributions

Troubleshooting

  • On a clean Ubuntu 16.04 install the pip install command pip install -e aiida_core may fail due to a problem with dependencies on the numpy package. In this case you may be presented with a message like the following:

    from numpy.distutils.misc_util import get_numpy_include_dirs ImportError: No module named numpy.distutils.misc_util

    To fix this, simply install numpy individually through pip in your virtual env, i.e.

    pip install numpy

    followed by executing the original install command once more

    pip install -e .

    This should fix the dependency error.

  • If the pip install command gives you an error that resembles the one shown below, you might need to downgrade to an older version of pip:

    Cannot fetch index base URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/
    

    To downgrade pip, use the following command:

    sudo easy_install pip==1.2.1
    
  • In order to use the AiiDA objects and functions in Jupyter, this latter has to be instructed to use the iPython kernel installed in the AiiDA virtual environment. This happens by default if you install AiiDA with pip including the notebook option and run Jupyter from the AiiDA virtual environment.

    If, for any reason, you do not want to install Jupyter in the virtual environment, you might consider to install it out of the virtual environment, if not already done:

    $ pip install jupyter
    

    Then, activate the AiiDA virtual environment:

    $ source ~/<aiida.virtualenv>/bin/activate
    

    and setup the AiiDA iPython kernel:

    $ pip install ipykernel
    $ python -m ipykernel install --user --name=<aiida.kernel.name>
    

    where you have chosen a meaningful name for the new kernel.

    Finally, start a Jupyter server:

    $ jupyter notebook
    

    and from the newly opened browser tab select New -> <aiida.kernel.name>

  • Several users reported the need to install also libpq-dev (header files for libpq5 - PostgreSQL library):

    apt-get install libpq-dev
    

    But under Ubuntu 12.04 this is not needed.

  • If the installation fails while installing the packages related to the database, you may have not installed or set up the database libraries.

    In particular, on Mac OS X, if you installed the binary package of PostgreSQL, it is possible that the PATH environment variable is not set correctly, and you get a “Error: pg_config executable not found.” error. In this case, discover where the binary is located, then add a line to your ~/.bashrc file similar to the following:

    export PATH=/the/path/to/the/pg_config/file:${PATH}
    

    and then open a new bash shell. Some possible paths can be found at this Stackoverflow link and a non-exhaustive list of possible paths is the following (version number may change):

    • /Applications/Postgres93.app/Contents/MacOS/bin
    • /Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/bin
    • /Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/bin/pg_config

    Similarly, if the package installs but then errors occur during the first of AiiDA (with Symbol not found errors or similar), you may need to point to the path where the dynamical libraries are. A way to do it is to add a line similar to the following to the ~/.bashrc and then open a new shell:

    export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=/Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/lib:$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH
    

    (you should of course adapt the path to the PostgreSQL libraries).

  • For some reasons, on some machines (notably often on Mac OS X) there is no default locale defined, and when you run verdi setup for the first time it fails (see also this issue of django). Run in your terminal (or maybe even better, add to your .bashrc, but then remember to open a new shell window!):

    export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
    export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
    

    and then run verdi setup again.

  • [Only for developers] The developer tests of the SSH transport plugin are performed connecting to localhost. The tests will fail if a passwordless ssh connection is not set up. Therefore, if you want to run the tests:

    • make sure to have a ssh server. On Ubuntu, for instance, you can install it using:

      sudo apt-get install openssh-server
      
    • Configure a ssh key for your user on your machine, and then add your public key to the authorized keys of localhsot. The easiest way to achieve this is to run:

      ssh-copy-id localhost
      

      (it will ask your password, because it is connecting via ssh to localhost to install your public key inside ~/.ssh/authorized_keys).

Updating AiiDA from a previous version

AiiDA can be updated from a previously installed version. Before beginning the procedure, make sure of the following:

  • your daemon is stopped (use verdi daemon stop),

  • you know your current AiiDA version. In case, you can get it from the verdi shell:

    import aiida
    aiida.__version__
    

    (only the two first digits matter),

  • you have a backup of your database(s) (follow the guidelines in the backup section),

  • you have a backup of the full ~/.aiida folder (where configuration files are stored),

  • (optional) virtualenv is installed, i.e. you once ran the command:

    pip install --user -U setuptools pip wheel virtualenv
    

Note

A few general remarks:

  • If you want to update the code in the same folder, but modified some files locally, you can stash them (git stash) before cloning or pulling the new code. Then put them back with git stash pop (note that conflicts might appear).
  • If you encounter any problems and/or inconsistencies, delete any .pyc files that may have remained from the previous version. E.g. If you are in your AiiDA folder you can type find . -name "*.pyc" -type f -delete.
  • From 0.8.0 onwards there is no requirements.txt file anymore. It has been replaced by setup_requirements.py and pip will install all the requirements automatically. If for some reason you would still like to get such a file, you can create it using the script aiida_core/utils/create_requirements.py

Updating between development versions (for Developers)

After you checkout a development branch or pull a new state from the repository

  • run pip install -e again (or in a different virtualenv) This applies changes to the distribution system (setup.py and related)

To use the new version in production:

  • run verdi setup This updates your daemon profile and related files. It should not be done when another version of aiida is wished to be used productively on the same machine/user.

Updating from 0.8.* Django to 0.9.0 Django

  • Enable your virtual environment:

    virtualenv ~/aiidapy
    source ~/aiidapy/bin/activate
    
  • Go to the directory where you want to place your code and clone the latest version from Github:

    cd <where_you_want_the_aiida_sourcecode>
    git clone git@github.com:aiidateam/aiida_core.git
    

Note

  • If you have cloned in the past the code, you can just checkout the latest version

  • In case you have an older version of pip or setuptools, try to upgrade them:

    pip install -U setuptools pip
    
  • Install the new version of AiiDA by typing:

    pip install -e aiida_core[<EXTRAS>]
    

    where <EXTRAS> is a comma separated list of the optional features you wish to install (see the optional dependencies). The two first steps above can be removed if you do not want to install AiiDA into a virtual environment (reminder: this is not recommended).

Updating from 0.7.0 Django to 0.8.0 Django

  • In a virtual environment, clone and install the code from github with:

    virtualenv ~/aiidapy
    source ~/aiidapy/bin/activate
    cd <where_you_want_the_aiida_sourcecode>
    git clone git@github.com:aiidateam/aiida_core.git
    pip install -e aiida_core[<EXTRAS>]
    

    where <EXTRAS> is a comma separated list of the optional features you wish to install (see the optional dependencies). The two first steps above can be removed if you do not want to install AiiDA into a virtual environment (reminder: this is not recommended).

  • Undo all PATH and PYTHONPATH changes you did in your .bashrc and similar files to add verdi and runaiida of the previous version. When using the virtual environment, you do not need anymore to update the PYTHONPATH nor the PATH.

  • Run a verdi command, e.g., verdi calculation list. This should raise an exception, and in the exception message you will see the command to run to update the schema version of the DB (version 0.8 is using a newer version of the schema). The command will look like python manage.py --aiida-profile=default migrate (to be run from <AiiDA_folder>/aiida/backends/djsite) but please read the message for the correct command to run.

  • If you run verdi calculation list again now, it should work without error messages.

  • Rerun verdi setup (formerly verdi install), no manual changes to your profile should be necessary. This step is necessary as it updates some internal configuration files.

  • You might want to create an alias to easily go into the correct virtual environment and have all AiiDA commands available: in your ~/.bashrc file you can add an alias like:

    alias aiida_env='source ~/aiidapy/bin/activate'
    
  • Activate the tab-completion of verdi commands (see here).

Updating the backup script

In case you used the AiiDA repository backup mechanism in 0.7.0 and you would like to continue using it in 0.8.0, you should update the backup scripts.

To do so:

  • Re-run the backup_setup.py (verdi -p PROFILENAME run MY_AIIDA_FOLDER/aiida/common/additions/backup_script/backup_setup.py). Keep in mind that you should have activated your virtual environment in case you use one.
  • Provide the backup folder by providing the full path. This is the folder where the backup configuration files and scripts reside.
  • Provide the destination folder of the backup (normally in the previously provided backup folder)
  • Reply No when the scripts asks you to print the configuration parameters explanation.
  • Reply No when the scripts asks you to configure backup configuration file.
  • The script should have exited now. Ignore its proposals to update the backup_info.json.tmpl and the startup script.
  • Your backup mechanism is ready to be used again. You can continue using it by executing start_backup.py.

Updating from an older version

Because the database schema changes typically at every version, and since the migration script assumes that you are using the previous AiiDA version, one has to migrate in steps, from the version of AiiDA you were using, until the current one. For instance, if you are currently using AiiDA 0.5, you should first update to 0.6, then to 0.7, and finally to 0.8. Do not forget to deactivate the current virtual environment before installing any new version.

For each intermediate update (e.g. when you update from 0.5 to 0.6 in the above example), do the following:

virtualenv ~/aiidapy_<VERSION>
source ~/aiidapy_<VERSION>/bin/activate
cd <where_you_want_the_aiida_sourcecode>

(<VERSION> being the intermediate version you are updating to, in our example 0.6).

Then get the code with the appropriate version and install its dependencies: AiiDA versions prior or equal to 0.7 can be cloned from bitbucket:

git clone git@bitbucket.org:aiida_team/aiida_core.git aiida_core_<VERSION>
cd aiida_core_<VERSION>
git checkout v<VERSION>
pip install -U -r requirements.txt

and update the PATH and PYTHONPATH environment variables in your ~/.bashrc file before sourcing it (replace <AiiDA_folder> with the folder in which you just installed AiiDA):

export PATH="${PATH}:<AiiDA_folder>/bin"
export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:<AiiDA_folder>"

Then follow the specific instructions below for each intermediate update.

Note

  • If you have an issue with ultrajson during the pip install step, replace ultrajson with ujson in the requirements.txt file (the name of this module changed over time).

  • In the pip install step, you might need to install some dependencies located in optional_requirements.txt (e.g. psycopg2 for postgresql database users), as well as ipython to get a proper shell, e.g.:

    pip install -U -r requirements.txt psycopg2==2.6 ipython
    

Updating from 0.6.0 Django to 0.7.0 Django

In version 0.7 we have changed the Django database schema and we also have updated the AiiDA configuration files.

  • Run a verdi command, e.g., verdi calculation list. This should raise an exception, and in the exception message you will see the command to run to update the schema version of the DB (version 0.7 is using a newer version of the schema). The command will look like python manage.py --aiida-profile=default migrate (to be run from <AiiDA_folder>/aiida/backends/djsite) but please read the message for the correct command to run.

  • If you run verdi calculation list again now, it should work without error messages.

  • To update the AiiDA configuration files, you should execute the migration script:

    python <AiiDA_folder>/aiida/common/additions/migration_06dj_to_07dj.py
    

Updating from 0.6.0 Django to 0.7.0 SQLAlchemy

The SQLAlchemy backend was in beta mode for version 0.7.0. Therefore some of the verdi commands may not work as expected or at all (these are very few). If you would like to test the SQLAlchemy backend with your existing AiiDA database, you should convert it to the JSON format. We provide a transition script that will update your config files and change your database to the proper schema.

  • Go to you AiiDA folder and run ipython. Then execute:

    from aiida.backends.sqlalchemy.transition_06dj_to_07sqla import transition
    transition(profile="<your_profile>",group_size=10000)
    

    by replacing <your_profile> with the name of the appropriate profile (typically, default if you have only one profile).

Updating from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0

  • Execute the migration script:

    python <AiiDA_folder>/aiida/common/additions/migration.py
    

Note

  • In this version a lot of changes were introduced in order to allow a second object-relational mapper later (we will refer to it as backend) for the management of the used DBMSs and more specifically of PostgreSQL. Even if most of the needed restructuring & code addition was finished, a bit of more work was needed to get the new backend available.
  • You can not directly import data (verdi import) that you have exported (verdi export) with a previous version of AiiDA. Please use this script to convert it to the new schema. (Usage: python convert_exportfile_version.py input_file output_file).

Updating from 0.4.1 to 0.5.0

  • Run a verdi command, e.g., verdi calculation list. This should raise an exception, and in the exception message you will see the command to run to update the schema version of the DB (version 0.5 is using a newer version of the schema). The command will look like python manage.py --aiida-profile=default migrate (to be run from <AiiDA_folder>/ai aiida/djsite) but please read the message for the correct command to run.
  • If you run verdi calculation list again now, it should work without error messages.

Note

If you were working on a plugin, the plugin interface changed: you need to change the CalcInfo returning also a CodeInfo, as specified here and also accept a Code object among the inputs (also described in the same page).