Install

MDAnalysis is supported on

• Linux
• Mac OS X

and the instructions below are for supported operating systems.

However, some users also had success with installing on Windows. This is not currently officially supported but hints on how to make it work are listed under MDAnalysis on Windows.

Installing MDAnalysis

To install the latest stable release, use pip:

pip install MDAnalysis

To run the test cases and examples, also install the unit tests (about 20 MiB in size):

pip install MDAnalysisTests

If you have questions with the installation, please ask on the mdnalysis-discussion mailing list.

Other ways to install

• [Installing from binary packages](Installing from binary packages)
• [Installing from source](Installing from source)

Developers

Read the Guide for Developers, which includes special installation instructions.