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Update README to address potential problems with multiple python3 ver…
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Michael Hoff committed Apr 21, 2017
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Notes:

* Use `pip install --user <package name>` to install the python packages locally
* Use `sudo pip install <package name>` to install the python packages globally
* Use `pip install --user <package name>` to install the python packages locally.
* Use `sudo pip install <package name>` to install the python packages globally.
* The python packages can also be installed in a [virtualenv](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/stable/).
* For python3, use `pip3` to install python packages and install the python3 versions of the packages for NEST dependencies.
* Python3 is NOT officially supported by this package, but has been known to work occasionally.
* The use of multiple different python3 versions is discouraged.
Make sure to consistently use *one* version for installing libraries and actually running experiments.
When installing MUSIC, the specification of the precise executable (e.g. `python3.4`), rather than `python3`,
may be necessary in ambigous cases (see [#9](https://github.com/IGITUGraz/spore-nest-module/issues/9)).

```bash
## For MUSIC
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```bash
./autogen.sh
PYTHON=/usr/bin/python ./configure --prefix=$TARGET_DIR --disable-isend # Replace with python3 if desired
PYTHON=/usr/bin/python ./configure --prefix=$TARGET_DIR --disable-isend # Replace with python3[.x] if desired
make -j$NUM_CORES
make install
```
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