Installation

Manim runs on Python 3.8.

System requirements are：

  • FFmpeg

  • OpenGL (included in python package PyOpenGL)

  • LaTeX (optional, if you want to use LaTeX)

  • cairo (included in python package pycairo. optional, if you want to use Text in manim)

Directly

If you want to hack on manimlib itself, clone this repository and in that directory execute:

# Install python requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Try it out
python -m manim example_scenes.py OpeningManimExample

If you run the above command and no error message appears, then you have successfully installed all the environments required by manim.

Directly (Windows)

  1. Install FFmpeg, and make sure that its path is in the PATH environment variable.

  2. Install a LaTeX distribution. TeXLive-full is recommended.

  3. Install the remaining Python packages.

git clone https://github.com/3b1b/manim.git
cd manim
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manim.py example_scenes.py OpeningManimExample

For Anaconda

  • Install FFmpeg and LaTeX as above.

  • Create a conda environment using

git clone https://github.com/3b1b/manim.git
cd manim
conda env create -f environment.yml

Using virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper

After installing virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper

git clone https://github.com/3b1b/manim.git
mkvirtualenv -a manim -r requirements.txt manim
python -m manim example_scenes.py OpeningManimExample