I installed the pyrpl package on the CMTF laptop along with the correct versions of other packages it needs. To test this, I ran the command "from pyrpl import Pyrpl", which will throw an error unless the packages are downloaded correctly.
Here are some notes about how to go about this process:
1) Make a new anaconda environment running on python version 3.7 and install some package such as matplotlib. I'll assume this environment is called "RedPitaya"
Note: The version needs to be python 3.7, pyrpl will not work with the latest version of python without some serious debugging
2) Navigate to the folder anaconda3/envs/RedPitaya/lib/python3.7/site-packages/
Note: on a PC, the file path is anaconda3/envs/RedPitaya/lib/site-packages/
Note: You may need to force your computer to show hidden folders to find these file paths
3) Download the pyrpl package from https://github.com/lneuhaus/pyrpl/tree/master
4) Paste the folder "pyrpl" from the github repo in step (3) into the folder from step (2)
5) Install the following packages into the conda environment RedPitaya: pyqtgraph, pandas, quamash, the current version of PyYAML, scipy, paramiko, scp
6) Open a jupyter notebook and run "from pyrpl import Pyrpl" If this works, or only throws an error message, the computer should be ready to interface with a Red Pitaya using pyrpl. If there's an error message, some package likely needs to be downloaded or needs a different version. Fix that and try again.