Install a pre-built release via pip (x86_64 desktop only)

Olympe Python Wheels Runtime Requirements

Olympe is a Python 3 only package and requires Ubuntu 20.04 or higher, Debian 10 or higher.

Note: If you’re running Linux without a graphical desktop environment installed, you’ll also need to install the libgl1 package.

$ sudo apt-get install libgl1

Olympe Python Wheels minimal pip version

Installation of Olympe wheels requires pip version 20.3 or higher. As Ubuntu and Debian latest LTS release provided pip versions are currently too old you MUST use a virtual environment. See the Python environment Python environment best practices on Debian-based distros below for why and how to install a Python virtual environment. The rest of this section assumes that you have activated a suitable virtual environment in your current shell.

Install from pypi.org

Install the latest available version of Olympe via pip:

$ pip install parrot-olympe

Install from github.com

Alternatively, to install a specific Olympe version, you should browse the https://github.com/Parrot-Developers/olympe/releases page and pip install the .whl associated to this version, for example:

$ pip install https://github.com/Parrot-Developers/olympe/releases/download/v7.7.4-beta1/parrot_olympe-7.7.4-beta1-py3-none-manylinux_2_27_x86_64.whl