# 🚀 Getting Started

## 🔨 Installation

Info

TruLens now operates on OpenTelemetry traces. [Read more](/content/blog/2025/06/02/telemetry-for-the-agentic-world-trulens--opentelemetry/index.html).

These installation instructions assume that you have conda installed and added to your path.

1. Create a virtual environment (or modify an existing one).
   
   ```
   conda create -n "<my_name>" python=3  # Skip if using existing environment.
   conda activate <my_name>
   ```

2. [Pip installation] Install the trulens pip package from PyPI.
   
   ```
   pip install trulens
   ```

3. [Local installation] If you would like to develop or modify TruLens, you can download the source code by cloning the TruLens repo.
   
   ```
   git clone https://github.com/truera/trulens.git
   ```

4. [Local installation] Install the TruLens repo.
   
   ```
   cd trulens
   pip install -e .
   ```

## 🤿 Ready to dive in?

- Try one of the [quickstart notebooks](/content/getting_started/quickstarts/quickstart/index.html).
- Learn about the [core concepts](/content/getting_started/core_concepts/index.html).
- Dive deeper; how we do [evaluation](/content/component_guides/evaluation/index.html).
- Have an App to evaluate? [Tracking your app](/content/component_guides/instrumentation/index.html).
- Shed the floaties and proceed to the [API reference](/content/reference/index.html).

## 😍 Community

- 🙋 [Slack](https://communityinviter.com/apps/aiqualityforum/josh).