Installation
============
.. note::
Wheels are provided for Windows, Linux and OSX x86-64 platforms, as well as
Linux and OSX Aarch64 platforms. Other machines will have to build the wheel
from the source distribution. Building ``lightmotif`` involves compiling
Rust code, which requires a Rust compiler to be available.
PyPi
^^^^
``lightmotif`` is hosted on GitHub, but the easiest way to install it is to download
the latest release from its `PyPi repository <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lightmotif>`_.
It will install all dependencies then install ``lightmotif`` either from a wheel if
one is available, or from source after compiling the Rust code :
.. code:: console
$ pip install --user lightmotif
Arch User Repository
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A package recipe for Arch Linux can be found in the Arch User Repository
under the name `python-lightmotif <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-lightmotif>`_.
It will always match the latest release from PyPI.
Steps to install on ArchLinux depend on your `AUR helper <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers>`_
(``yaourt``, ``aura``, ``yay``, etc.). For ``aura``, you'll need to run:
.. code:: console
$ aura -A python-lightmotif
GitHub + ``pip``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If, for any reason, you prefer to download the library from GitHub, you can clone
the repository and install the repository by running (with the admin rights):
.. code:: console
$ pip install -U git+https://github.com/althonos/lightmotif
.. caution::
Keep in mind this will install always try to install the latest commit,
which may not even build, so consider using a versioned release instead.
GitHub + ``setuptools``
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you do not want to use ``pip``, you can still clone the repository and
run the ``setup.py`` file manually, although you will need to install the
build dependencies (mainly ``setuptools-rust``):
.. code:: console
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/althonos/lightmotif
$ cd lightmotif
$ python setup.py build
# python setup.py install
.. Danger::
Installing packages without ``pip`` is strongly discouraged, as they can
only be uninstalled manually, and may damage your system.