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Installation
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`effmass` is a Python 3 package and requires key packages from the `SciPy ecosystem <https://www.scipy.org/about.html>`_: SciPy, NumPy and Matplotlib. If you have not installed these packages before, it may be best to install them using your preferred package manager (eg: Homebrew). Note that together they will use >100MB of disk space. `effmass` can then be built using the Python package manager `pip`:
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pip install effmass
To start the command line interface simply type
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effmass
To download and install the latest release from `GitHub <https://github.com/lucydot/effmass/releases>`_
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cd effmass
python3 setup.py install
Or clone the latest development version
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git clone git@github.com:lucydot/effmass.git
and install the same way.
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cd effmass
python3 setup.py install