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Expand Up @@ -77,6 +77,15 @@ non-editable way, use one of the following commands to install pvlib-python::
# another option if you know what you are doing
pip install pvlib[optional]

.. note::

By default, pvlib will not install some infrequently used dependencies.
If you run into an error such as
`ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'netCDF4'`
you can either install pvlib with all optional dependencies using
`pip install pvlib[optional]`, or you can install pvlib from conda-forge
`conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib-python; conda activate pvlib`.

If your system complains that you don't have access privileges or asks
for a password then you're probably trying to install pvlib into your
system's Python distribution. This is usually a bad idea and you should
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