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.. _installing.python:
Python library
==============
Archinstall ships on `PyPi <https://pypi.org/>`_ as `archinstall <pypi.org/project/archinstall/>`_.
But the library can be installed manually as well.
.. warning::
These steps are not required if you want to use archinstall on the official Arch Linux ISO.
Installing with pacman
----------------------
Archinstall is on the `official repositories <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories>`_.
And it will also install archinstall as a python library.
To install both the library and the archinstall script:
.. code-block:: console
pacman -S archinstall
Alternatively, you can install only the library and not the helper executable using the ``python-archinstall`` package.
Installing from PyPI
--------------------
The basic concept of PyPI applies using `pip`.
.. code-block:: console
pip install archinstall
.. _installing.python.manual:
Install using source code
-------------------------
You can also install using the source code.
For sake of simplicity we will use ``git clone`` in this example.
.. code-block:: console
git clone https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall
You can either move the folder into your project and simply do
.. code-block:: python
import archinstall
Or you can PyPa's `build <https://github.com/pypa/build>`_ and `installer <https://github.com/pypa/installer>`_ to install it into pythons module path.
.. code-block:: console
$ cd archinstall
$ python -m build .
$ python -m installer dist/*.whl