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10 changes: 3 additions & 7 deletions docs/sphinx/source/user_guide/installation.rst
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Expand Up @@ -60,14 +60,10 @@ using the conda package manager in the
To install the most recent stable release of pvlib-python in a
non-editable way, use one of the following commands to install pvlib-python::

# get the package from the pvlib conda channel
# best option for installing pvlib in the base Anaconda distribution
conda install -c pvlib pvlib

# get the package from the conda-forge conda channel
# best option if using pvlib.forecast module
# strongly recommend installing in a separate conda env as shown below
conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib-python; conda activate pvlib
# note: both "pvlib" and "pvlib-python" work on conda-forge
conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib; conda activate pvlib

# get the package from the Python Package Index
# best option if you know what you are doing
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`ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'netCDF4'`
you can either install pvlib with all optional dependencies using
`pip install pvlib[optional]`, or you can install pvlib from conda-forge
`conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib-python; conda activate pvlib`.
`conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib; conda activate pvlib`.

If your system complains that you don't have access privileges or asks
for a password then you're probably trying to install pvlib into your
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.5.rst
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v0.9.5 (anticipated March 2023)
-------------------------------

Starting with this version, new releases are no longer distributed through
the ``pvlib`` `conda channel<https://anaconda.org/pvlib/pvlib>`_. We recommend
``conda`` users install from the ``conda-forge`` channel instead (see
:ref:`installation`).


Deprecations
~~~~~~~~~~~~
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