Installation Guide

There are two ways to install BigPlanet: 1) in conjunction with VPLanet and its other support scripts, or 2) from source.

To install BigPlanet and the other VPLanet packages, use the command:

python -m pip install vplanet

To install from source, first close the repo:

git clone https://github.com/VirtualPlanetaryLaboratory/bigplanet.git

and then go into the directory (BigPlanet) and run the setup script:

cd BigPlanet
python setup.py install

The setup script installs the various dependencies and allows BigPlanet to be run from the command line as well as be imported as a Python module.