Veronica K. B. Olsen
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.. _a_setup_linux:
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Setup on Linux
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.. _GitHub: https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/releases
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.. _main website: https://novelwriter.io
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This is a brief guide to how you can get novelWriter running on a Linux computer. There are
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currently no install package of novelWriter for Linux, so it is recommended that you download
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either the full source or minimal package and extract it to a practical location on your system and
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run the ``setup.py`` script.
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Running from Source
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===================
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To run novelWriter from source, download the latest source package from the release page on
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GitHub_ or the `main website`_, or if you have git running on your computer, you can also clone the
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repository.
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Step 1: Installing Dependencies
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The dependencies of novelWriter are generally available from Linux distro repositories. For Debian
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and Ubuntu, they can be installed with:
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.. code-block:: console
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sudo apt install python3-pyqt5 python3-lxml python3-enchant
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If you prefer to install dependencies via PyPi, or the repository dependencies are out of date, you
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can install them with:
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.. code-block:: console
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pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt
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Step 2: Install Package (Optional)
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You can install novelWriter to the default location for Python packages using setuptools. This step
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is optional as you can also just put the novelWriter program folder wherever you like. For instance
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to ``/opt/novelWriter`` and run Step 3 to set up icons and launcher.
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To install novelWriter to the default location, it requires that you have setuptools installed on
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your system. If you don't have setuptools, it can usually be installed from your distro's
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repository. For Debian and Ubuntu this is achieved with:
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.. code-block:: console
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sudo apt install python3-setuptools
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The package is also available from PyPi:
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.. code-block:: console
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pip3 install --user setuptools
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With setuptools in place, novelWriter can be installed to the user space with:
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.. code-block:: console
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./setup.py install --user
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This should install novelWriter as ``~/.local/bin/novelWriter``. If you instead want to install for
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all users, i.e. as ``/usr/local/bin/novelWriter``, run:
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.. code-block:: console
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sudo ./setup.py install
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This is equivalent to what the ``pip`` installer does. It puts novelWriter in the location on your
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system where Python packages are usually kept. This is not really the best suited location for a
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GUI application like novelWriter, so you may instead copy the entire source to a suiteable location
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yourself.
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Step 3: Create Launcher Icons
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Regardless of where you extract or install the source files, you can set up a standard icon and a
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launcher. To set up this desktop launcher, the needed icons, and the project file association,
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run the following from inside the novelWriter folder:
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.. code-block:: console
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./setup.py xdg-install
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By default, this command installs the launcher and icons for the current user only. To install for
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all users, run the script with the ``sudo`` command.
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.. tip::
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All options of the setup script can be listed with: ``./setup.py help``.
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