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 Instructions for installing the metcalcpy package from PyPI
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-- activate your Python 3.8.6+ conda environment
+- activate your Python 3.10+ conda environment
 - run the following from the command line:
    -  pip install metcalcpy==x.y.z  where x.y.z is the version number of interest