From 2fad6892789bbfa5673920ec6e55eb39220a5979 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Mayr, Hannes" <hannes.mayr@stud.tu-darmstadt.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:59:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add help for fatal error on Windows when executing pip
 install. .

---
 docs/source/installation.rst | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/installation.rst b/docs/source/installation.rst
index 858bb37..aac633f 100644
--- a/docs/source/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/source/installation.rst
@@ -23,4 +23,33 @@ Now activate the venv
 
     source venv/bin/activate
 
-The virtual environment now runs with python 3.10 and plotID can be installed the usual way as described in :doc:`Overview`.
\ No newline at end of file
+The virtual environment now runs with python 3.10 and plotID can be installed the usual way as described in :doc:`Overview`.
+
+
+Installation on Windows via pip
+-------------------------------
+If you're trying
+
+.. code:: cmd
+
+    pip install .
+
+and following error is thrown
+
+.. code:: cmd
+
+    Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"...env\Scripts\python.exe"  "..\venv\Scripts\pip.exe" install .': The system cannot find the specified file.
+
+Try to forcefully reinstall pip
+
+.. code:: cmd
+
+    python -m pip install --upgrade --force pip
+
+Or use 
+
+.. code:: cmd
+
+    python -m pip install .
+
+instead.
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