Commit e9a777e6 authored by Ryan S. Elliott's avatar Ryan S. Elliott
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Add explaination of potenentials directory behavior for `lmp_daily`

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@@ -71,9 +71,12 @@ To get a copy of the current potentials files:
   $ sudo apt-get install lammps-daily-data

which will download the potentials files to
``/usr/share/lammps-daily/potentials``
``/usr/share/lammps-daily/potentials``.  The ``lmp_daily`` binary is
hard-coded to look for potential files in this directory (it does not
use the `LAMMPS_POTENTIALS` environment variable, as described
in :doc:`pair_coeff <pair_coeff>` command).

The LAMMPS binary is built with the :ref:`KIM package <kim>` which
The ``lmp_daily`` binary is built with the :ref:`KIM package <kim>` which
results in the above command also installing the `kim-api` binaries when LAMMPS
is installed.  In order to use potentials from `openkim.org <openkim_>`_, you
can install the `openkim-models` package