I believe you need to type two dashes for the "editable" parameter:
pip install --editable .... On Monday, October 3, 2022 at 7:23:41 AM UTC-4 uu86...@gmail.com wrote: > I also tried to avoid cloud storage and whitespace issues by copying Leo > to another folder, but it did not help either: > C:\Users\user>pip install -editable C:\Users\user\Apps\Leo\leo-editor-6.3 > > ERROR: ditable is not a valid editable requirement. It should either be a > path to a local project or a VCS URL (beginning with bzr+http, bzr+https, > bzr+ssh, bzr+sftp, bzr+ftp, bzr+lp, bzr+file, git+http, git+https, git+ssh, > git+git, git+file, hg+file, hg+http, hg+https, hg+ssh, hg+static-http, > svn+ssh, svn+http, svn+https, svn+svn, svn+file). > > On Monday, October 3, 2022 at 1:11:03 PM UTC+2 User User wrote: > >> Update: trying to deal with whitespace in the path did not help: >> C:\Users\user>pip install -editable "C:\Users\user\OneDrive - >> User\Apps\Leo\leo-editor-6.3" >> ERROR: ditable is not a valid editable requirement. It should either be a >> path to a local project or a VCS URL (beginning with bzr+http, bzr+https, >> bzr+ssh, bzr+sftp, bzr+ftp, bzr+lp, bzr+file, git+http, git+https, git+ssh, >> git+git, git+file, hg+file, hg+http, hg+https, hg+ssh, hg+static-http, >> svn+ssh, svn+http, svn+https, svn+svn, svn+file). >> On Monday, October 3, 2022 at 1:07:11 PM UTC+2 User User wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> many thanks to Edward and the community for beautiful Leo. Need your >>> help installing it on Windows. >>> >>> I usually work in Linux and install Leo successfully by downloading and >>> unpacking leo-editor-6.3.zip and running launchLeo.py with gui=qt key. >>> However, it did not work for me in Windows. >>> >>> I already have Python and Qt on my PC. This is what I tried: >>> C:\Users\user>python C:\Users\user\OneDrive - >>> User\Apps\Leo\leo-editor-6.3\launchLeo.py --gui=qt >>> It fails: can't find '__main__' module in 'C:\\Users\\user\\OneDrive' >>> >>> When I try to run pip install according to Installing from sources >>> recommendations I get: >>> C:\Users\user>pip install -editable C:\Users\user\OneDrive - >>> User\Apps\Leo\leo-editor-6.3 >>> ERROR: Directory 'C:\\Users\\user\\OneDrive' is not installable. Neither >>> 'setup.py' nor 'pyproject.toml' found. >>> >>> "Installing Leo with pip" recommendation did not work for me either. >>> Also, I prefer Leo 6.3. >>> >>> Appreciate any advice on how to install Leo (ideally, 6.3) on Windows! >>> >>> Kind regards, Serhii >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/fd916e78-fcc3-48a1-ad2d-679f04c357c1n%40googlegroups.com.
