setting up python interface with cmake

I selected the option to set up the shared library but I did NOT install the python package
because I understood the latter was only for python scripting within LAMMPS. I only want
to invoke lammps from within Python. Should I have also installed the python package?

…Murray

I selected the option to set up the shared library but I did NOT install the python package
because I understood the latter was only for python scripting within LAMMPS. I only want
to invoke lammps from within Python. Should I have also installed the python package?

no. the python package is for enabling some LAMMPS commands that call python functions.

axel.