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Installation FAQ #314

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This has also been successfully tested on a clean MAC OS 10.9.1 (Mavericks) install.


Installation Troubles (FAQ)
===========================

We highly encourage with any installation problems to try the recommended install
method because this often fix problems. Here are some common problems when
installing and their fixes:

**Problem:** While building tardis via ``python setup.py`` build you
may encounter the following error::

error: tardis/montecarlo/montecarlo.c: Could not find C file tardis/montecarlo/montecarlo.c for Cython file tardis/montecarlo/montecarlo.pyx when building extension tardis.montecarlo.montecarlo. Cython must be installed to build from a git checkout.


**Solution:** There are several solutions to this problem. A clean checkout will
help. To clean up your repository please try ``python setup.py clean`` and
then ``git clean -dfx`` (**WARNING** will delete any non tardis file in that directory)
This will often clean this problem. If it still persists:

Go into the tardis/montecarlo directory and build montecarlo.c by hand::

cython montecarlo.pyx

Then, ``python setup.py build`` should run without problems.