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<p>Lektor is an <a href="../license/">Open Source Project</a> and freely available to
download. It's currently still under heavy development and not all platforms
are equally well supported, although closer to it.</p>
<h2 id="command-line-interface">Command Line Interface</h2><p>You can install the command line version of
Lektor by copy/pasting a command into your terminal.</p>
<div class="admonition admonition-tip"><p>Scared about copy/pasting this into a terminal? We now use standard tools
to install lektor. <code>pipx</code> is the recommended method to install standalone
command line interface python packages as recommended by <a href="https://packaging.python.org/guides/installing-stand-alone-command-line-tools/">PyPA</a>.</p></div><h3 id="first-install-pipx">First Install PipX</h3><p>Let's first install <code>pipx</code>.</p>
<p><strong>Ubuntu</strong></p>
<pre><code>sudo apt install python3-pip python3-venv
python3 -m pip install --user pipx
python3 -m pipx ensurepath
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<p><strong>macOS</strong></p>
<pre><code>brew install pipx
pipx ensurepath
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<p><strong>Windows</strong></p>
<pre><code>python -m pip install --user pipx
python -m pipx ensurepath
</code></pre>
<p>For more information on <code>pipx</code> installation go to <a href="https://pypa.github.io/pipx/installation/">pypa.github.io/pipx/installation/</a></p>
<h3 id="let-s-install-lektor-now">Let's install Lektor now</h3><p>Close and reopen terminal (<code>Powershell</code> or <code>cmd</code> on Windows), then install <code>lektor</code>:</p>
<pre><code>pipx install lektor
</code></pre>
<p>You might need additional dependencies for this installation. For more
information see <a href="../docs/installation/">Installation</a>.</p>
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