Setting up Spex manuallyΒΆ

Note

In doubt as to which method to use when setting up Spex? See Setting up Spex.

Warning

Spex reserves the right to update dependencies if it helps development or enables new features or better performance.

If you choose the manual route, it is up to you to update your system accordingly.

Spex is implemented in Python and distributed via Pypi and thus installable via pip / pipx:

pipx install nvme-spex

And then run it:

spex --help

For this to run then the following runtime requirements must be met:

  1. Python >= 3.11

    • spex relies on Python features for types introduced in Python 3.11

  2. Python packages

    • For details, then have a look at the Spex flake (setup.cfg)

  3. C libraries used by the Python packages

    • Specificaly, then Spex uses the Python package lxml which in turn requires the libxml2 C library to be present on the system.

    • This may change and more dependencies may be added, see the flake.nix file for full details.

Note

The setup of the above requirements is specific to the environment that you are using. The only supported environment is the reference environment, managed by Setting up Spex with Nix