From d907e910c20658c4bf5e1cb2e85904de9f0201ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yifan Zhao <yifanz16@illinois.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 11:00:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Explain how to activate conda environment

---
 hpvm/docs/install.rst | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hpvm/docs/install.rst b/hpvm/docs/install.rst
index fa4a3f747b..a4f386ff1b 100644
--- a/hpvm/docs/install.rst
+++ b/hpvm/docs/install.rst
@@ -19,12 +19,19 @@ The following components are required to be installed on your machine to build H
 
 Python must be strictly 3.6 (any subversion from 3.6.0 to 3.6.13).
 Alternatively, if you use Anaconda for package management,
-we provide a conda environment file that covers all Python and package requirements:
+we provide a conda environment file that covers all Python and package requirements
+(``hpvm/env.yaml`` can be found in the repository):
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
    conda env create -n hpvm -f hpvm/env.yaml
 
+This creates the conda environment ``hpvm``.
+If you use this method, remember to activate the environment each time you enter a bash shell:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+   conda activate hpvm
 
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