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While it is not strictly necessary, it reduces possible conflicts if one installs python packages that do not need to be available system-wide into local, virtual environments. An easy option to setup such virtual environments is the venv module.

python3 -m venv /path/to/new/virtual/environment

This creates a local environment under /path/to/new/virtual/environment, which can be loaded via:

source /path/to/new/virtual/environment/bin/activate

Another way is to install a mini conda environment, in which separate virtual environments can be created with:

conda create --name <name> python=<version>

In order to activate the conda environment, you can use:

conda activate <name_of_env>

Either within your virtual environment or system-wide, the easiest way to install gwemlightcurve is it to run