Documentation on how to run ADF on a new machine

[cecilehannay]

New feature type

Other (please explain below)

What is this new feature?

I recently receive a question of an user who wants to run the ADF on their own machine. They are requesting info about the npl env.

I read the tutorial "ADF tutorial: Running a CAM vs CAM comparison on Casper". I want to do the same thing on our machine "Leto". In the steps 2 and 3 of the tutorial, it is talking about : module conda/latest. Do you mean installing anaconda or miniconda? conda activate npl. Which libraries are in this npl env? It will be helpful for me if I could get some documentations on how to run ADF on a new machine.

Assistance required?

Yes, I am requesting a new feature but won't have time to develop it

Extra info

No response

[nusbaume]

Adding a note here that these instructions will also need to include instructions for how to install NCO if not present on a person's machine already, which can be done using conda with the following command:

conda install -c conda-forge nco

The documentation should also specify that this will need to be done while the ADF conda environment is active.

[brianpm]

For Mac users, NCO can also be installed with brew. Just to add some complication to this issue. For simplicity, I think we should recommend using conda, but maybe note there are other methods available.