Clare S. Y. Huang Data Scientist | Atmospheric Dynamicist

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Installation of Jekyll on Windows 10

12 Feb 2017

Below are the procedures I used to install Jekyll with problem solvers:

Main reference sites:

Jekyll on Windows
Easily install Jekyll on Windows with 3 command prompt entries and Chocolatey

Procedures:

  1. Open Powershell
  2. Run Powershell as administrator: [Reference]

    Start-Process powershell -Verb runAs

  3. Change execution policy to enable installation of Chocolatey (a package manager): [Reference]

    Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

  4. Installing Chocolatey: [Reference]

    iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex

  5. Update the certificate to install ruby: [Reference]
    http://guides.rubygems.org/ssl-certificate-update/
  6. Install ruby:

    choco install ruby -y

  7. Close the window and open a new command prompt with Administrator access (i.e. step 2)
  8. Install gem bundler

    gem install bundler

  9. Install Jekyll

    gem install jekyll

  10. Done :)

Installing Python Library for downloading ERA-Interim Data

13 Jun 2016

Update: ECMWF API Clients on pip and conda

The ECMWF API Python Client is now available on pypi and anaconda.
The Climate Corporation has distributed the ECMWF API Python Client on pypi. Now it can be installed via:

pip install ecmwf-api-client

If you are using anaconda, OS X/linux users can install that via

conda install -c bioconda ecmwfapi

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