Installation

ares depends on:

• numpy
• scipy
• matplotlib

and optionally:

• python-progressbar
• hmf (halo mass function calculator written by Stephen Murray)
• mpi4py
• h5py

If you have mercurial installed, you can clone ares and its entire revision history via:

hg clone https://bitbucket.org/mirochaj/ares ares
cd ares
python setup.py install

If you do not have mercurial installed, and would rather just grab a tarball of the most recent version, select the Download repository option on bitbucket.

Once you’ve got the code, you’ll need to set an environment variable which points to the ares install directory, e.g. (in bash)

export ARES=/users/<yourusername>/ares

A few lookup tables will be downloaded to $ARES/input automatically.

Help

If you encounter problems with installation or running simple scripts, first check the Troubleshooting page in the documentation to see if you’re dealing with a common problem. If you don’t find your problem listed there, please let me know!