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Update Linux setup for consistency and add more details for macOS

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Veronica K. B. Olsen
2021-03-21 16:54:53 +01:00
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@@ -52,12 +52,19 @@ You can install novelWriter to the correct location for Python packages with:
.. code-block:: console
./setup.py install
./setup.py install --user
This is equivalent to what the ``pip`` installer does. It puts novelWriter in the location on your
system where Python packages are usually kept. This is not really the best suited location for a
GUI application like novelWriter, so you may instead copy the entire source to a suiteable location
yourself.
This requires that the package ``setuptools`` is installed on your system. If not, it can be
installed with:
.. code-block:: console
pip3 install --user setuptools
This is method of install is equivalent to what the ``pip`` installer does. It puts novelWriter in
the location on your system where Python packages are usually kept. This is not really the best
suited location for a GUI application like novelWriter, so you may instead copy the entire source
to a suiteable location yourself.
After this, you should be able to launch novelWriter by running ``novelWriter`` in a command line
window.