# Third-party applications

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.. sectionauthor:: Florian Zill (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ)
```

`ogstools` makes use of some several third party python packages:

- [tqdm](https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm): progress bars in computionally
  expensive loops
  - if you want to globally deactivate them please set the following environt
    variable: `os.environ["TQDM_DISABLE"] = "1"`
- ...