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## Ignored Errors
Some errors are ignored in novelWriter, for various reasons. In addition, novelWriter uses
Some `flake8` error codes are ignored for this project for various reasons. The source also uses
camelCase function and variable names due to this being the standard for the Qt libraries, and also
because of the author's personal preferences.
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You can download the latest version of novelWriter from the source repository on GitHub_.
novelWriter is also hosted on PyPi_, and can be installed on all operating systems that support Qt5
and Python 3. It is regularly tested on Linux, Windows and macOS.
and Python 3. It is regularly tested on Linux, Windows and macOS. The latest version of novelWriter
is |release|.
To install from PyPi you must first have the ``python`` and ``pip`` commands available on your
system. If you don't, see specific instructions for your operating system later in this document.
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pip install --upgrade novelwriter
The latest version of novelWriter is |release|.
When installing via pip, novelWriter can be launched from command line with:
.. code-block:: console
novelWriter
Make sure the install location for pip is in your PATH variable. This is not always the case by
default.
.. _GitHub: https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/releases
.. _PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/novelWriter/
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for all users, run the script with the ``sudo`` command. Other options are also available. Run
``python setup.py help`` for a full list of install options.
This should install novelWriter to either ``~/.local/bin/novelWriter`` if installed for local user
only, or to ``/usr/local/bin/novelWriter`` if installed for all users.
.. _a_started_macos:
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brew install enchant
With the dependencies in place, you can either launch the ``novelWriter.py`` script directly, or
run the install command:
.. code-block:: console
python setup.py install
After this, you should be able to launch novelWriter by running ``novelWriter`` in a command line
window.
Right now there isn't a better integration with macOS available. Contributions from someone more
familiar with macOS would be very much appreciated.
.. _brew docs: https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-and-Python