3  Setting up the project

If you haven’t already, you should familiarize yourself with the Background and Before Starting sections of the documentation.

3.1 Cloning the project repo

Open up a terminal and navigate to where you want to keep the project’s directory (folder). In the documentation, we will assume you will keep it in your home folder:

cd ~

If you already created the project’s conda environment to have access to git, go ahead and use one of the following commands to activate the project’s conda environment. If you are using conda, enter:

conda activate hyper-time

If you are using micromamba, use:

micromamba activate hyper-time

If you haven’t created the project’s conda environment yet, don’t worry, we will be doing that in the next section.

Clone the git repository for this project and then cd into the newly downloaded project directory:

git clone git@github.com:phyletica/ecoevolity-hyper-time.git
cd ecoevolity-hyper-time

3.2 Setting up the project

Next, we will run the setup_project_env.sh Bash script. This will create the project’s conda environment (if it doesn’t already exist), and download and install a specific version (git commit) of the ecoevolity software package.

bash setup_project_env.sh

All of the ecoevolity programs will be installed into a bin directory within the project folder.