Installing the model involves doing some preliminaries, taking two installation steps, and then doing some clean-up:

• Preliminaries
• Step 1: Install the Tax-Analyzer-Framework
• Step 2: Install the ALI-Tax-Analyzer Model
• Clean-Up

Preliminaries

Before taking the three installation steps, create a new directory called ali in your home directory. You can do this by opening an operating system command prompt window (by starting the cmd app on Windows, which should put you in your home directory). Make a note of the name of your home directory. Then enter the following command:
mkdir ali
and then moving into that new directory using the
cd ali
command. (Note that when entering a command, you need to press the Enter or Return key at the end in order to execute the command.) Once you have done these two commands, close the command prompt window.

The other preliminary step is required only if you are working on Windows. It is essential for Windows to show you the extension on each file name, but the default Windows settings are to not show file extensions. Follow these simple instructions to make Windows show you file extensions.

Step 1. Install the Tax-Analyzer-Framework

Do this by following these installation instructions.

Step 2. Install the ALI-Tax-Analyzer Model

• Execute the following commands at the Anaconda Prompt (not in the Anaconda Navigator) if you are on Windows. On other operating systems, do the following steps at the operating system command prompt.

• Activate the tafe environment by executing this command:
  conda activate tafe

• Unzip the downloaded code for the latest release in your ali directory. Then change to the top-level directory of the unzipped source code tree. Among other files, there should be a setup.py file in the top-level directory.

• Move into the alitaxanalyzer directory (the directory that contains the analyzer.py file) by entering the
  cd alitaxanalyzer
  command. Then download the data file. This data file, which is named all-data.zip, is encrypted and password protected to maintain the confidentiality of the tax data. The password will be provided to you in a confidential manner. Unzip it in the alitaxanalyzer directory, so that there is a file named all.csv in that directory. After confirming the existence of this file in the alitaxanalyzer directory, use the cd .. command to change back to the parent directory where the setup.py file is located.

• Create and install the package by executing this command:
  pip install .
  which uses information in the setup.py file.

• Confirm the existence of the ALI-Tax-Analyzer model package by changing out of that source code directory to your ali directory. The command
  alirun --version
  should show you the ALI-Tax-Analyzer version you downloaded. The command
  alirun --test
  should generate a PASSED TEST message on the screen.

Clean-Up

After taking the two installation steps, remove the ali directory. The easiest way to do this is to use your operating system's graphical file management system to drag the ali folder to the trash.

Remember that every time you use the model (by opening an Anaconda Prompt on Windows or an operating system command prompt on a non-Windows computer), you must activate the tafe environment by executing the
conda activate tafe
command.