An installation of PostgreSQL is required. The easiest way is to work in a conda environment and simply run conda install postgresql.
After installation run
smartem.init -d <path/to/where/data/will/go>This will run basic database setup. Upon completion this should suggest running a command to set the environment variable SMARTEM_CREDENTIALS which will setup database access credentials for you. The database server is started with
smartem.start -d <path/to/where/data/will/go>and once you no longer need the server it can be stopped with
smartem.stop -d <path/to/where/data/will/go>The smartem GUI can be launched (if there is a database server running) with
smartem.launch