Installation and setup

This page provides instructions for setting up the software environment required to do the exercises in the lesson. The following packages are needed:

  • python=3.9

  • numpy

  • matplotlib

  • jupyterlab

  • qiskit

  • qiskit[visualization]

  • pylatexenc

  • r-base=3.6

  • r-tidyverse

  • rpy2

  • Quito

Local installation

It is strongly recommended to install all dependencies inside a virtual environment. Here are instructions for using the conda package manager.

Anaconda/miniconda

If you do not already have an Anaconda or miniconda installation on your computer, download and install miniconda (a smaller distribution than Anaconda) by following the official documentation.

With a working Anaconda/miniconda installation, you can now create a new conda environment with all the required packages by:

$ conda env create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ENCCS/NordIQuEst-workshop/main/environment.yml

Before using the environment you need to activate it:

$ conda activate qcomp

Quito

First clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/Simula-COMPLEX/quito.git

To use Quito one calls directly the script python quito/Quito_CoverageRunning/quito.py.

Exercises

All exercises are contained in Jupyter notebooks. You can work in two different ways:

  1. Create a new Jupyter notebook using JupyterLab. Copy-paste code cells from the hands-on episodes of this lesson. Edit as needed and run.

  2. Clone this repository to access the complete notebooks:

    $ git clone https://github.com/ENCCS/NordIQuEst-workshop.git
$ cd NordIQuEst-workshop/content/notebooks
$ jupyter-lab

Running in the cloud

As an alternative to installing packages locally, you can also click the “launch binder” button on the front page. This will spin up a cloud instance on mybinder.org with all dependencies installed.

Exercises

After the Binder image spins up and you see the JupyterLab interface, navigate to the /content/notebooks directory in the left-hand file browser to see the exercise notebooks. You can also create new notebooks and copy-paste code cells and edit them as needed.