Installing in a virutal environment

In some instances, it may make more sense to install gfdlvitals in a virutal environment. This prevents overwriting existing versions of Python modules that you may have already installed. The steps below are for a BASH shell with a system Python installed.

  1. Ensure that virtualenv is installed:

python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv

  1. Create a virual environment:

python3 -m venv vitals

  1. Acitvate the virtual environment:

source vitals/bin/activate

  1. Make sure pip is up-to-date:

pip install --upgrade pip

  1. Install gfdlvitals:

pip install git+https://github.com/jkrasting/gfdlvitals.git