Installation

Clone the repository (e.g. with Git) or download and extract the .zip (available under the green code button on the GitHub page).
Open a terminal, move into the folder where AURORA was just installed, and start Julia with the command
```
$> julia
```
We now need to install the packages required by AURORA. To do this, we need to activate and instantiate the repository environment using the following commands
```
julia> using Pkg
julia> Pkg.activate(".")
julia> Pkg.instantiate() # this might take a while...
```
AURORA is now ready to use!

Note

"Instantiating" the environment will download and install dependencies in their correct version. This needs to be done only the first time you use AURORA.
"Activating" the local environment will however have to be done everytime you start a new Julia session and want to use AURORA.

Supported OS

AURORA is developed on Linux and is thus only fully supported on Linux. It should also work fine on macOS. There might be some issues on Windows due to the use of the pymsis and iri2016 python packages which both call some fortran code under the hood (and thus bring all kind of issues related to making fortran compilers work on Windows).