Installing Anaconda and Pymks

Go to https://www.continuum.io/downloads and click on your OS distribution (Mac,Linux,Windows).

For MacOS:

Download the graphical installer for Python 2.7 and install anaconda.

For Linux:

Download the Python 2.7 installer.

Open a terminal and type
cd ~/path_of_downloaded_anaconda_file/
bash Anaconda    (and press the tab key to get the full name)

The final command will run the installation and you're going to be asked a series of questions.
In general, Anaconda will be installed in /home/your_username/anaconda2.

If you want to install it somewhere else you will need to give a full path like: /home/your_username/Python_tools/anaconda2

For all other questions type yes (that is critical for smooth installation and easy use of Anaconda)

After you've installed Anaconda follow the instruction for PyMKS:

MacOS and Linux:

Open a terminal and type:

conda --add-channels pymks
pip install pymks
conda install vtk
pip install mayavi

With these 4 commands you have full functionality of Pymks in Jupyter-notebook using:
import pymks

If you want to run the jupyter notebook you can type in terminal jupyter-notebook, or anaconda-navigator and you can see the full set of tools installed with Anaconda.

MacOS users can open the the Anaconda Navigator in Applications and run Jupyter Notebook from there.