# MindQuantum Installation

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## Confirming System Environment Information

- Refer to [MindSpore Installation Guide](https://www.mindspore.cn/install/en), install MindSpore, version 1.4.0 or later is required.

## Installation Methods

You can install MindInsight either by pip or by source code.

### Install by pip

```bash
pip install mindquantum==0.7.0
```

> - Refers to [MindSpore](https://www.mindspore.cn/versions) to find different version of packages。

### Install by Source Code

1.Download Source Code from Gitee

```bash
cd ~
git clone https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindquantum.git
```

2.Compiling MindQuantum

```bash
cd ~/mindquantum
python setup.py install --user
```

## Verifying Successful Installation

Successfully installed, if there is no error message such as No module named 'mindquantum' when execute the following command:

```bash
python -c 'import mindquantum'
```

## Install with Docker

Mac or Windows users can install MindQuantum through Docker. Please refer to [Docker installation guide](https://gitee.com/mindspore/mindquantum/blob/r0.7/install_with_docker_en.md#).

## Note

Please set the parallel core number before running MindQuantum scripts. For example, if you want to set the parallel core number to 4, please run the command below:

```bash
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=4
```

For large servers, please set the number of parallel kernels appropriately according to the size of the model to achieve optimal results.