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Merged Joseph Weston requested to merge installation-instructions into master
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Mac OS X
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`Pre-built packages <#conda>`_ for Max OS X exist for the ``conda`` package
manager, which is a part of the `Anaconda` Python distribution.
manager, which is a part of the ``Anaconda`` Python distribution.
Using ``conda`` is the recommended way to install Kwant on Mac OS X.
If you do not want to use the ``conda`` packages, you can always install Kwant
using `pip`_. Or by directly building `from source`_.
using `pip`_. Or by directly `building from source`_.
We previously maintained Homebrew and Macports packages for Kwant, but due to
effort required to keep them up to date we have dropped support for these
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+ Lapack
+ `MUMPS <http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/MUMPS/>`_.
If you using a GNU/Linux system then your distribution probably has packages for
these libraries; you will need to install the `-dev` versions of the packages.
If you using a GNU/Linux system then your distribution probably has packages
for these libraries; you will need to install the `-dev` or `-devel` versions
of the packages.
As an example, on a Debian or Ubuntu system, the following
command will install the non-Python prerequisites of Kwant::
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