We recommend using uv as Python package manager, for which you can find installation instructions here. You can then install the released version of HierachicalForecast: 
uv pip install hierarchicalforecast
Alternatively, you can directly install from the Python package index with: 
pip install hierarchicalforecast
or within a conda environment: 
conda install -c conda-forge hierarchicalforecast
Tip We recommend installing your libraries inside a python virtual or conda environment.

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Installing from source

We recommend using uv as Python package manager, for which you can find installation instructions here.
  1. Clone the HierachicalForecast repo:
$ git clone https://github.com/Nixtla/hierachicalforecast.git && cd hierachicalforecast
  1. Create the environment:
$ uv venv --python 3.10
  1. Activate the environment:
  • on MacOS / Linux:
$ source .venv/bin/activate
  • on Windows:
$ .\.venv\Scripts\activate
  1. Install the dependencies and the library
uv pip install -r setup.py
uv pip install .