Conda forge install

1. To keep your conda setup tidy, we recommend that you install NEST into a separate conda environment together with Python packages that you will use when working with NEST; see also our Tips for installing NEST with conda.

   To install the latest version of NEST in a new environment called ENVNAME, just run

   conda create --name ENVNAME -c conda-forge nest-simulator
   

   To install additional packages into the environment, just list them together with nest-simulator.

   conda create --name ENVNAME -c conda-forge nest-simulator jupyterlab seaborn
   

2. To see all NEST versions available via conda, either run

   conda search -c conda-forge nest-simulator
   

   or browse the conda forge file list (note there are multiple pages). To install, e.g., NEST 2.18.0, run

   conda create --name nest_2_18_0 -c conda-forge nest-simulator=2.18.0=*
   

   The syntax for this install follows the pattern: nest-simulator=<version>=<build_string>.

3. Activate your environment:

   conda activate ENVNAME
   

4. Note the following:

   • We currently provide NEST with thread-based parallelization on conda. This should suffice for most uses on personal computers.