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For the installation of the basic LSST packages, please check for additional requirements or known problems here: https://pipelines.lsst.io/install/newinstall.html and then follow a similar process to start the installation of the LSST build system.
Warning: the pipelines.lsst.io instructions will tell you to run newinstall.sh with the `-t` flag. This enables installation of the software packages as binaries. This process is not safe for lsst_sims. It ships GalSim (an lsst_sims dependency) in an unusable state. Please run newinstall.sh without the `-t` flag as shown below. You will then be installing from source, which can be time-consuming, but is more likely to leave you with a working version of lsst_sims.
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