From afa28fc61b1b8b415b4f7dba22288e61c1f045a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Sauze <cos@aber.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 22:44:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] adding install instructions

---
 INSTALL | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d00c9d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+To install it is recommended to use a virtual environment by running the following commands:
+
+python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv
+python3 -m venv plcurves
+source plcurves/bin/activate
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+