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## Requirements
Although `lektor` would work without Imagemagick or FFmpeg, you would be missing on
significant parts of its capabilities. Therefore, you need to make sure you have the
Although `lektor` would work without FFmpeg, you would be missing on
some of its capabilities. Therefore, you need to make sure you have the
following software installed on your computer:
* Python 3.6+ is required. If you got an older version, look at the
* Python 3.7+ is required. If you got an older version, look at the
[Python 3 Installation & Setup Guide :ext](https://realpython.com/installing-python/).
* On Ubuntu you basically don't need anything new.
* On macOS you're done as well.
* On Windows, make sure that Python is in your `PATH`.
* ImageMagick.
* On macOS `brew install imagemagick` can get you this.
* On Ubuntu `sudo apt install imagemagick` will solve it.
* On Windows do `choco install imagemagick`, which requires [chocolatey :ext](https://chocolatey.org/),
or [download from here :ext](http://www.imagemagick.org)).
* FFmpeg (mostly for video thumbnailing).
* FFmpeg (optional, for video thumbnailing support).
* On Ubuntu you get it through `sudo apt install ffmpeg.`
* On macOS `brew install ffmpeg` will do the trick.
* On Windows you'll have to put a little [work :ext](https://www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows) in.
! Since release 3.4.0, Lektor uses [Pillow :ext](https://pillow.readthedocs.io/) for image thumbnailing. ImageMagick is no longer required.
## Install pipx
Once you have those installed and have made sure that they are on your `PATH`, you can
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. venv/bin/activate
pip install --editable .
```
Recent versions of Lektor (since around 3.4.0) are also installable directly from git.
You still need `npm` installed, but the frontend JS will be built automatically as part of the PEP 517 build process:
```
python -m venv venv
./venv/bin/pip install "lektor @ git+https://github.com/lektor/lektor@master"
```