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Commit 2fad6892 authored by Mayr, Hannes's avatar Mayr, Hannes
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Add help for fatal error on Windows when executing pip install. .

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3 merge requests!52Create v0.2.2,!51Fix documentation build,!50Many additions to the documentation
......@@ -24,3 +24,32 @@ 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`.
Installation on Windows via pip
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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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