# Downloads

Lektor is an Open Source Project and freely available to download. It's currently still under heavy development and not all platforms are equally well supported, although closer to it.

## Command Line Interface

You can install the command line version of Lektor by copy/pasting a command into your terminal.

Scared about copy/pasting this into a terminal? We now use standard tools to install lektor. `pipx` is the recommended method to install standalone command line interface python packages as recommended by PyPA.

### First Install PipX

Let's first install `pipx`.

Ubuntu

    sudo apt install python3-pip python3-venv
    python3 -m pip install --user pipx
    python3 -m pipx ensurepath

macOS

    brew install pipx
    pipx ensurepath

Windows

    python -m pip install --user pipx
    python -m pipx ensurepath

For more information on `pipx` installation go to pypa.github.io/pipx/installation/

### Let's install Lektor now

Close and reopen terminal (`Powershell` or `cmd` on Windows), then install `lektor`:

    pipx install lektor

You might need additional dependencies for this installation. For more information see Installation.