GenericMappingTools · seisman · Oct 1, 2019 · Sep 19, 2019 · Sep 23, 2019 · Sep 24, 2019
diff --git a/doc/install.rst b/doc/install.rst
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Which Python?
 
 You'll need **Python 3.6 or greater** to run PyGMT.
 
-We recommend using the `Anaconda <http:https://continuum.io/downloads#all>`__ Python
+We recommend using the `Anaconda <https:https://www.anaconda.com/distribution>`__ Python
 distribution to ensure you have all dependencies installed and the ``conda``
 package manager available.
 Installing Anaconda does not require administrative rights to your computer and
@@ -29,14 +29,23 @@ doesn't interfere with any other Python installations in your system.
 Which GMT?
 ----------
 
-You'll need the latest development version available from
-`the GitHub repository <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt>`__.
-PyGMT is based on GMT 6, **which has not yet been officially released**.
+PyGMT requires GMT 6 as a minimum, which you can find the latest development version
+at `this GitHub repository <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt>`__.
 
 We need the very latest GMT since there are many changes being made to GMT itself in
 response to the development of PyGMT, mainly the new
-`modern execution mode <http:https://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/projects/gmt/wiki/Modernization>`__.
+`modern execution mode <https:https://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/projects/gmt/wiki/Modernization>`__.
 
+**GMT 6 has not been officially released yet**, but will be soon!
+In the meantime, GMT does provide compiled conda packages of their development version
+for Linux, Mac and Windows through
+`conda-forge <https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/gmt>`__.
+Advanced users can also
+`build GMT from source <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/blob/master/BUILDING.md>`__
+instead, which is not so recommended but we would love to get feedback from anyone who
+tries.
+
+We recommend following the instructions further on to install GMT 6.
 
 Dependencies
 ------------
@@ -53,44 +62,38 @@ The following are optional (but recommended) dependencies:
 * `IPython <https://ipython.org/>`__: For embedding the figures in Jupyter notebooks.
 
 
-Installing GMT
---------------
-
-Unfortunately, you'll have to build GMT from source in order to get PyGMT working.
-Please follow the `GMT Building Instructions <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/blob/master/BUILDING.md>`__.
-
-For Windows users, you can also try to install the binaries of
-GMT development version, available from https://w3.ualg.pt/~jluis/mirone/downloads/gmt.html.
-Currently, we don't have tests running on Windows yet, so things might be broken.
-Please report any errors by `creating an issue on Github <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/issues>`__.
-
-.. note::
-
-   We used to maintain conda packages for the latest GMT. That caused many problems and
-   was very difficult to maintain updated. We have opted to not do that anymore so that
-   we can develop more quickly. Once GMT 6 is officially released, we'll have conda
-   packages available again. Please bear with us.
-
-Installing dependencies
------------------------
+Installing GMT and other dependencies
+-------------------------------------
 
-Before installing PyGMT, we must install its dependencies.
+Before installing PyGMT, we must install GMT itself along with the other dependencies.
 The easiest way to do this is using the ``conda`` package manager.
 We recommend working in an isolated
-`conda environment <https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html>`__
+`conda environment <https://conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html>`__
 to avoid issues with competing versions of its dependencies.
 
-We can create a new conda environment with Python and all our dependencies installed
+First, we must configure conda to get packages from the
+`conda-forge channel <https://conda-forge.org/>`__ (the order is important)::
+
+    conda config --prepend channels conda-forge/label/dev
+    conda config --prepend channels conda-forge
+
+Now we can create a new conda environment with Python and all our dependencies installed
 (we'll call it ``pygmt`` but you can change it to whatever you want)::
 
-     conda create --name pygmt python=3.6 pip numpy pandas xarray packaging
+     conda create --name pygmt python=3.6 pip numpy pandas xarray packaging gmt=6.0.0rc*
 
 Activate the environment by running::
 
-    source activate pygmt
+    conda activate pygmt
+
+From now on, all commands will take place inside the conda virtual environment and won't
+affect your default installation.
+
+.. note::
 
-From now on, all commands will take place inside the environment and won't affect your
-default installation.
+    **Currently, this has only been tested to work on Linux and macOS.**
+    We don't have tests running on Windows yet, so things might be broken.
+    Please report any errors by `creating an issue on Github <https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/pygmt/issues>`__.
 
 Installing PyGMT
 ----------------

diff --git a/pygmt/clib/session.py b/pygmt/clib/session.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class Session:
     library in the directory specified by it.
 
     A ``GMTVersionError`` exception will be raised if the GMT shared library reports a
-    version < 6.0.0rc1.
+    version < 6.0.0rc4.
 
     The ``session_pointer`` attribute holds a ctypes pointer to the currently open
     session.
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ class Session:
     """
 
     # The minimum version of GMT required
-    required_version = "6.0.0rc1"
+    required_version = "6.0.0rc4"
 
     @property
     def session_pointer(self):
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ def call_module(self, module, args):
         Parameters
         ----------
         module : str
-            Module name (``'pscoast'``, ``'psbasemap'``, etc).
+            Module name (``'coast'``, ``'basemap'``, etc).
         args : str
             String with the command line arguments that will be passed to the
             module (for example, ``'-R0/5/0/10 -JM'``).

diff --git a/pygmt/tests/test_clib.py b/pygmt/tests/test_clib.py
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ def test_get_default():
     with clib.Session() as lib:
         assert lib.get_default("API_GRID_LAYOUT") in ["rows", "columns"]
         assert int(lib.get_default("API_CORES")) >= 1
-        assert Version(lib.get_default("API_VERSION")) >= Version("6.0.0rc1")
+        assert Version(lib.get_default("API_VERSION")) >= Version("6.0.0rc4")
 
 
 def test_get_default_fails():

diff --git a/pygmt/tests/test_session_management.py b/pygmt/tests/test_session_management.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ def test_begin_end():
     end()  # Kill the global session
     begin()
     with Session() as lib:
-        lib.call_module("psbasemap", "-R10/70/-3/8 -JX4i/3i -Ba")
+        lib.call_module("basemap", "-R10/70/-3/8 -JX4i/3i -Ba")
     end()
     begin()  # Restart the global session
     assert os.path.exists("pygmt-session.pdf")

diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Requirements for installing with conda
-gmt=6.0.0rc1
+gmt=6.0.0rc4
 numpy
 pandas
 xarray