From 030d897b164c88c7a7a5778d0bb239ce56746e82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BowenD-UCB <84425382+BowenD-UCB@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 16:51:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] added installation from source

---
 README.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a90efb28..3f50b303 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ Pretrained CHGNet achieves SOTA performance on materials stability prediction fr
 pip install chgnet
 ```
 
+if pypi installation fails, you can try installation from source:
+
+```sh
+git clone https://github.com/CederGroupHub/chgnet.git
+cd chgnet
+pip install -e .
+```
+
 ## Docs
 
 View [API docs](https://cedergrouphub.github.io/chgnet/api).