.. _installation:

Installation
============

*CIMA has only been tested in Ubuntu Linux distributions. MacOS support is not guaranteed.*

Install CIMA from the public gitlab
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To install and work with CIMA, the best is to create a new conda environment and install CIMA there.

To install conda, please follow the instruction in the official documentation:

https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/install/index.html

You can install CIMA from the public gitlab repository. To do that, follow the instructions below:

.. code-block:: bash

   conda create -n CIMA -c bioconda -c conda-forge python=3.12
   conda activate CIMA
   pip install git+https://gitlab.iit.it/ina-public/cima.git