Installing from PyPi

novelWriter is also available on the Python Package Index, or PyPi. This install method works on all supported operating systems with a suitable Python environment already installed.

To install from PyPi you must first have the python and pip commands available on your system. You can download Python from python.org. It is recommended that you install the latest version. If you are on Windows, also make sure to select the “Add Python to PATH” option during installation.

To install novelWriter from PyPi, use the following command:

pip install novelwriter

To upgrade an existing installation, use:

pip install --upgrade novelwriter

When installing via pip, novelWriter can be launched from command line with:

novelwriter

Make sure the install location for pip is in your PATH variable. This is not always the case by default, and then you may get a “Not Found” error when running the novelwriter command.