You can get the latest version of the IRATE format from bitbucket at the IRATE-format project page. You’ll need to install mercurial and just run the command at the top of the project page that begins with hg clone. Once a release is ready, it will appear on PyPI
Of course, you must have python installed before you can do anything with IRATE, although most operating systems other than Windows have it installed automatically.
Once you have a copy of the IRATE source code, you will need to be sure you install the HDF5 libraries (libhdf5) which can be found on the HDF5 web site, although it’s usually much easier to just install using a package manager if your OS has one. IRATE requires at least v1.8 of the HDF5 format.
Additionally, if you intend to convert Tipsy binary format files to IRATE, you will need to have <Cython http://cython.org/>_ installed before you install IRATE.
Two other packages are needed by IRATE - h5py, and numpy. If you so desire, you can install these yourself beforehand, although the install process for IRATE should download and install it for you
Once you have the requirements satisfied, execute the following command in the IRATE source code directory:
python setup.py install
Note that on most unix-like systems, you will have to run this command as root, or (e.g. Ubuntu) include the command sudo in front of it. This should install IRATE, and you can go ahead and use any of the scripts or library components.