installing python packages directly from github using pip

Recently, I needed to install a package directly from Github which I’m trying to contribute into. For example, you have this url: https://github.com/zkanda/lambda-uploader What you can do is just add git+ as a prefix in the URL. Here’s how you can do it! pip install git+https://github.com/zkanda/lambda-uploader But I want to install a code in another branch, so how do we do it? We just add @branch_name at the end of the url....

December 5, 2016 · 1 min · Zakatell Kanda

setting vi mode on ipython

When I upgraded my IPython version to 5 and one thing that I’m missing is vi mode binding. When I read the changelog, they now replace readline with prompt_toolkit a pure python interactive command line prompt. This is very nice because it supports all platform that Python supports. So to bring back your vi binding, you need to do some few changes. ipython profile create This will create a default profile where you can change your IPython configuration....

July 13, 2016 · 1 min · Zakatell Kanda

compiling a beta kernel in archlinux

You have a new laptop, you install ArchLinux on it and seems like some things are missing. This is currently the case for me: one missing feature was “suspend”, my laptop just seems to boot as if I turned off everything, my application is not persisted another is a fix for my headphone noise issue, just to name a few… One of the few things you can try is to install the latest beta kernel....

June 17, 2016 · 2 min · Zakatell Kanda