Installation Instructions¶
cmd2
works on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It requires Python 3.5 or
higher, pip, and setuptools. If you’ve got all that, then you can just:
$ pip install cmd2
Note
Depending on how and where you have installed Python on your system and on
what OS you are using, you may need to have administrator or root privileges
to install Python packages. If this is the case, take the necessary steps
required to run the commands in this section as root/admin, e.g.: on most
Linux or Mac systems, you can precede them with sudo
:
$ sudo pip install <package_name>
Prerequisites¶
If you have Python 3 >=3.5 installed from python.org, you will already have pip and setuptools, but may need to upgrade to the latest versions:
On Linux or OS X:
$ pip install -U pip setuptoolsOn Windows:
> python -m pip install -U pip setuptools
Install from PyPI¶
pip is the recommended installer. Installing packages from PyPI with pip is easy:
$ pip install cmd2
This will install the required 3rd-party dependencies, if necessary.
Install from GitHub¶
The latest version of cmd2
can be installed directly from the master branch
on GitHub using pip:
$ pip install -U git+git://github.com/python-cmd2/cmd2.git
Install from Debian or Ubuntu repos¶
We recommend installing from pip, but if you wish to install from Debian or Ubuntu repos this can be done with apt-get.
For Python 3:
$ sudo apt-get install python3-cmd2
This will also install the required 3rd-party dependencies.
Warning
Versions of cmd2
before 0.7.0 should be considered to be of unstable
“beta” quality and should not be relied upon for production use. If you
cannot get a version >= 0.7 from your OS repository, then we recommend
installing from either pip or GitHub - see Install from PyPI or
Install from GitHub.
Upgrading cmd2¶
Upgrade an already installed cmd2
to the latest version from PyPI:
pip install -U cmd2
This will upgrade to the newest stable version of cmd2
and will also
upgrade any dependencies if necessary.
Uninstalling cmd2¶
If you wish to permanently uninstall cmd2
, this can also easily be done with pip:
$ pip uninstall cmd2
macOS Considerations¶
macOS comes with the libedit library which is
similar, but not identical, to GNU Readline. Tab-completion for cmd2
applications is only tested against GNU Readline.
There are several ways GNU Readline can be installed within a Python environment on a Mac, detailed in the following subsections.
gnureadline Python module¶
Install the gnureadline Python module which is statically linked against a specific compatible version of GNU Readline:
$ pip install -U gnureadline
readline via conda¶
Install the readline package using the conda
package manager included
with the Anaconda Python distribution:
$ conda install readline
readline via brew¶
Install the readline package using the Homebrew package manager (compiles from source):
$ brew install openssl
$ brew install pyenv
$ brew install readline
Then use pyenv to compile Python and link against the installed readline