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title: Install
subtitle: Install
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# Installing cellxgene
Cellxgene has two parts:
- [`cellxgene`](launch) is the main explorer application, which takes an already-processed `h5ad` file as input. This is installed by default.
- [`cellxgene prepare`](prepare) provides auxiliary functionality for preparing your dataset. This is _not_ installed by default.
## Requirements
You'll need **python 3.6+** and an up-to-date version of **Google Chrome**.
The web UI is tested on OSX and Windows using Chrome, and the python CLI is tested on OSX and Ubuntu (via WSL/Windows).
It should work on other platforms, but if you run into trouble let us know.
[Python.org](https://www.python.org/downloads/) has help on installing a recent
version of Python, including the pip package manager. Chrome is available at
[Google.com/chrome](https://google.com/chrome).
## Basic install using pip
To install the `cellxgene` explorer alone, run:
```
pip install cellxgene
```
To install `cellxgene` and the optional `cellxgene prepare`, run:
```
pip install cellxgene[prepare]
```
_Note: if the aforementioned optional `prepare` package installation fails, you can also install these packages directly:_
```
pip install scanpy>=1.3.7 python-igraph louvain>=0.6
```
_On various Linux platforms, you may also need to install build dependencies first:_
```
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev
pip install scanpy>=1.3.7 python-igraph louvain>=0.6
```
If you already have `cellxgene` installed, you can update to the most recent version by running:
```
pip install cellxgene --upgrade
```
## Using a conda environment
To install `cellxgene` alone, run:
```
conda create --yes -n cellxgene python=3.7
conda activate cellxgene
pip install cellxgene
```
To install `cellxgene` and the optional `cellxgene prepare`, run:
```
conda create --yes -n cellxgene python=3.7
conda activate cellxgene
pip install cellxgene[prepare]
```
## Using a virtual environment
To install `cellxgene` alone, run:
```
ENV_NAME=cellxgene
python3.7 -m venv ${ENV_NAME}
source ${ENV_NAME}/bin/activate
pip install cellxgene
```
To install `cellxgene` and `cellxgene prepare`, run:
```
ENV_NAME=cellxgene
python3.7 -m venv ${ENV_NAME}
source ${ENV_NAME}/bin/activate
pip install cellxgene[prepare]
```
## Using docker
Build the image
```
docker build . -t cellxgene
```
Run the container and mount data (change data location, `--port` and `--host` parameters as needed)
```
docker run -v "$PWD/example-dataset/:/data/" -p 5005:5005 cellxgene launch --host 0.0.0.0 data/pbmc3k.h5ad
```
You will need to use `--host 0.0.0.0` to have the container listen to incoming requests from the browser