Thank you very much! I used double dash and the installer worked
successfully:
...
Successfully built leo
Installing collected packages: leo
Attempting uninstall: leo
Found existing installation: leo 6.6.4
Uninstalling leo-6.6.4:
Successfully uninstalled leo-6.6.4
WARNING: The scripts leo-c.exe, leo-console.exe, leo-m.exe and
leo-messages.exe are installed in
'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\Scripts'
which is not on PATH.
Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this
warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed leo-6.3
C:\Users\user\Apps\Leo\leo-editor-6.3>
However, my attempt to launch Leo is unsuccessful:
C:\Users\user>python C:\Users\user\Apps\Leo\leo-editor-6.3\launchLeo.py
** (python3.10.exe:8084): WARNING **: 15:22:23.005: Error loading plugin:
'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\enchant\data\mingw64/lib/enchant-2\enchant_hunspell.dll':
The specified module could not be found.
Leo 6.3
Invalid language code for Enchant 'en-US'
Using "en_US" instead
Use @string enchant_language to specify your language
Can not create empty workbook
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"C:\Users\user\Apps\Leo\leo-editor-6.3\leo\commands\spellCommands.py", line
353, in open_dict_file
d = enchant.DictWithPWL(language, fn)
File
"C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\enchant\__init__.py",
line 781, in __init__
super().__init__(tag, broker)
File
"C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\site-packages\enchant\__init__.py",
line 542, in __init__
super().__init__()
...
What else do I miss? It's hard to believe that Leo can't launch due to
missing hunspell module.
Thank you once again!
On Monday, October 3, 2022 at 2:36:17 PM UTC+2 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote:
> This follows a very common convention. A single-letter parameter on the
> command line takes a single dash, longer parameters take a double dash.
> E.g.,
>
> -h
> --help
>
> Some programs don't quite follow the convention (java, for example,
> understands java -version) but Python and Leo do.
>
> On Monday, October 3, 2022 at 8:30:48 AM UTC-4 Thomas Passin wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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