Installation

Create a conda environment

Use a conda environment

We recommend you install movement inside a conda or mamba environment, to avoid dependency conflicts with other packages. In the following we assume you have conda installed, but the same commands will also work with mamba/micromamba.

First, create and activate an environment with some prerequisites. You can call your environment whatever you like, we’ve used movement-env.

conda create -n movement-env -c conda-forge python=3.10 pytables
conda activate movement-env

Install the package

Then install the movement package as described below.

Users

To get the latest release from PyPI:

pip install movement

If you have an older version of movement installed in the same environment, you can update to the latest version with:

pip install --upgrade movement

Developers

To get the latest development version, clone the GitHub repository and then run from inside the repository:

pip install -e .[dev]  # works on most shells
pip install -e '.[dev]'  # works on zsh (the default shell on macOS)

This will install the package in editable mode, including all dev dependencies. Please see the contributing guide for more information.

Check the installation

To verify that the installation was successful, you can run the following command (with the movement-env activated):

movement info

You should see a printout including the version numbers of movement and some of its dependencies.