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Document use of mamba to install Cylc.
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Via Conda (recommended)
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.. warning::
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The ``conda`` environment solver can be very slow and memory-intensive for
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complex packages. We recommend installing the much faster ``mamba`` solver
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first, and then installing Cylc with that.
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.. code-block:: sub
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$ conda install -c conda-forge cylc-flow
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$ conda install -c conda-forge mamba
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$ mamba install -c conda-forge cylc-flow
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# Install the browser-GUI (optional)
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$ conda install -c conda-forge cylc-uiserver
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$ mamba install -c conda-forge cylc-uiserver
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# Install Rose support (optional)
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$ conda install -c conda-forge cylc-rose metomi-rose
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$ mamba install -c conda-forge cylc-rose metomi-rose
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Via Pip (+npm)
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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