Requirements

Prospector works with Python3

You will also need:

numpy and SciPy
emcee and/or dynesty for inference (Please cite these packages in any publications)
sedpy (for filter projections)
HDF5 and h5py (If you have Enthought or Anaconda one or both of these may already be installed, or you can get HDF5 from homebrew or macports)

For modeling galaxies you will need:

You probably also need to have AstroPy for FITS file processing and cosmological calculations, please cite this package in any publications.

For parallel processing with emcee you will need:

MPI (e.g. openMPI or mvapich2, available from homebrew, macports, or Anaconda) and mpi4py

Installation

Prospector is pure python.

cd <install_dir>
git clone https://github.com/bd-j/prospector
cd prospector
python setup.py install

Then in Python

import prospect