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Scrub instructions regarding pvlib conda channel (#1624)
* update installation docs * whatsnew
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docs/sphinx/source/user_guide/installation.rst

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To install the most recent stable release of pvlib-python in a
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non-editable way, use one of the following commands to install pvlib-python::
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# get the package from the pvlib conda channel
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# best option for installing pvlib in the base Anaconda distribution
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conda install -c pvlib pvlib
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# get the package from the conda-forge conda channel
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# best option if using pvlib.forecast module
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# strongly recommend installing in a separate conda env as shown below
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conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib-python; conda activate pvlib
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# note: both "pvlib" and "pvlib-python" work on conda-forge
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conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib; conda activate pvlib
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# get the package from the Python Package Index
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# best option if you know what you are doing
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`ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'netCDF4'`
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you can either install pvlib with all optional dependencies using
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`pip install pvlib[optional]`, or you can install pvlib from conda-forge
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`conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib-python; conda activate pvlib`.
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`conda create -n pvlib -c conda-forge pvlib; conda activate pvlib`.
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If your system complains that you don't have access privileges or asks
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for a password then you're probably trying to install pvlib into your

docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.5.rst

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v0.9.5 (anticipated March 2023)
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Starting with this version, new releases are no longer distributed through
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the ``pvlib`` `conda channel<https://anaconda.org/pvlib/pvlib>`_. We recommend
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``conda`` users install from the ``conda-forge`` channel instead (see
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:ref:`installation`).
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Deprecations
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