Installation steps

Installation

Before starting the setup, ensure you have wget and conda installed.
Follow the links for corresponding installation guides.

Steps to Set Up the Geo-Epic Toolkit

Create a virtual environment in conda

conda create --name geo_epic python=3.11.9

Activate the environment
```
conda activate geo_epic
```
Install gdal Gdal is used by geo-epic for processing geospatial files. So install gdal using this command.
```
conda install gdal
```
Install the Geo-Epic Toolkit
There are two options for installing the Geo-Epic Toolkit:

i. Option 1: Install Directly from GitHub(recommended)
```
pip install git+https://github.com/smarsGroup/geo-epic.git
```
i. Option 2: Install locally This option is advisable only for developers.
```
git clone https://github.com/smarsGroup/geo-epic.git
cd geo-epic
pip install .
```

Now, the geo-epic toolkit is sucessfully installed on the geo_epic conda environment. All the commands and python API can be accessed via that conda environment. Happy coding!