> For more information: [conda environments](https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html)
> *For more information: [conda environments](https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html)*
#### Activating the environment
### Activating the environment
After creating the `csmdev` environment and installing cmake and libcsm into it, we need to activate it. Right now, cmake, libcsm, and their dependencies are isolated to a conda environment and we need to tell conda that we want to use it. The activation command depends on your shell.
***bash**: `source activate csmdev`
***tcsh**: `conda activate csmdev`
> *You can add these to the end of your $HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.cshrc if you want the `csmdev` environment to be active in every new terminal.*
## Building CSM-CameraModel
After you've set up conda, you can build CSM-CameraModel:
1. Fork `USGS-Astrogeology/CSM-CameraModel` if you don't already have a fork.