From 29880badc69dd1e4aef1f50001e601bf3e3e303c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Sare <robertmsare@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2019 11:38:42 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update install instructions

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 README.md | 14 ++++----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ec697e5..01cdfda 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,19 +25,13 @@ It was designed with two main goals:
 
 `scarplet` can be installed using `conda` or `pip`. It is developed for Python 3.4+ and currently works on Linux and Mac OS X.
 
-```bash
-conda install scarplet -c conda-forge
-```
-
-Or, to manually install the latest version from github: 
+It is best to [use a virtual environment](https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html) for the install because the GDAL dependency can be tricky:
 
 ```bash
-git clone https://github.com/rmsare/scarplet
-cd scarplet
-conda install --file=requirements.txt -c conda-forge
-python setup.py develop
+conda create -n scarplet_env
+conda activate scarplet_env
+conda install scarplet -c conda-forge
 ```
-
 The main dependencies are numpy, scipy, numexpr, pyfftw (which requires LibFFTW3)
 and rasterio/GDAL.