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# How to install Finesse
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## Anaconda
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There are a variety of ways to install Finesse on your system. We currently recommend using the Conda package manager (https://conda.io/docs/) for installing Finesse. As we also recommend using Finesse with Pykat, using Conda allows you to install Finesse, Pykat, and all their dependencies quickly.
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If you don't want to use Conda, fear not, you can still download the Finesse binary files for OSX, Windows, and Linux and install it yourself. Please see http://www.gwoptics.org/finesse/#download and refer to the INSTALL file in the download.
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## Conda
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As of June 2017 we have begun to distribute the Finesse binary files in a Conda package. The Conda package manager is a very useful cross platform tool. You can quickly and painlessly install Finesse on Windows, OSX, and Linux now using this. We highly recommend using Conda as we believe it is the easiest way to manage python packages.
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The packages are hosted at: https://anaconda.org/gwoptics/finesse
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### I have Anaconda installed already
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Check now if you have Anaconda or Conda already installed on your system.
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### I don't have Anaconda/Conda on my machine
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You can install Anaconda from https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/install which contains 100s of scientific packages. If you want to keep things simpler, install Miniconda https://conda.io/miniconda.html, then you can individually select packages you want. Once installed run the commands shown next...
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### I have Anaconda/Conda installed already
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Decide whether you want to install Finesse in your root environment or some other one you are using. You should activate this environment and then run the following commands. You will only be able to use Finesse in the environments that you install it in! If you know nothing about
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First you need to add the gwoptics channel to your conda package manager:
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Type `kat` and the Finesse header should appear.
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#### I want to install a specific version
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This should run successfully. Then type:
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```
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conda install finesse=2.1
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## Windows
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# I want the latest development version of Finesse
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## OSX
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If you want access to the latest and greatest features in Finesse you will have to setup up the development environment. This is significantly easier on Linux and OSX, Windows can be troublesome.
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