qutebrowser/INSTALL.asciidoc

Installing qutebrowser
======================

On Debian / Ubuntu
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qutebrowser should run on these systems:

* Debian jessie or newer
* Ubuntu Trusty (14.04 LTS) or newer
* Any other distribution based on these (e.g. Linux Mint 17+)

Unfortunately there is no Debian package yet, but installing qutebrowser is
still relatively easy! If you want to help packaging it for Debian, please
https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/issues/582[get in touch]!

Install the dependencies via apt-get:

[NOTE]
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On Debian, it's recommended to install the Qt packages from the
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental[experimental] repository as those
are a much newer version of Qt which is more stable.

Add the following line to your `/etc/apt/sources.list`:

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deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main
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Then install the packages like this:

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# apt-get update
# apt-get install -t experimental python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit python3-sip
# apt-get install python-tox
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It's also recommended to pin those packages to receive updates by creating a
file `/etc/apt/preferences.d/qutebrowser` with the following contents:

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Package: python3-pyqt5* libqt5*
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 800
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For distributions other than Debian or if you prefer to not use the
experimental repo:

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# apt-get install python3-pyqt5 python3-pyqt5.qtwebkit python-tox python3-sip
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To generate the documentation for the `:help` command, when using the git
repository (rather than a release):

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# apt-get install asciidoc source-highlight
$ python3 scripts/asciidoc2html.py
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Then <<tox,install qutebrowser via tox>>.

On Fedora
---------

qutebrowser should run on Fedora 22.

Unfortunately there is no Fedora package yet, but installing qutebrowser is
still relatively easy! If you want to help packaging it for Fedora, please
mailto:mail@qutebrowser.org[get in touch]!

Install the dependencies via dnf:

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# dnf update
# dnf install python3-qt5 python-tox python3-sip
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To generate the documentation for the `:help` command, when using the git
repository (rather than a release):

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# dnf install asciidoc source-highlight
$ python3 scripts/asciidoc2html.py
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Then <<tox,install qutebrowser via tox>>.

On Archlinux
------------

There are two Archlinux packages available in the AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qutebrowser/[qutebrowser] and
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qutebrowser-git/[qutebrowser-git].

You can install them (and the needed pypeg2 dependency) like this:

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$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/py/python-pypeg2/python-pypeg2.tar.gz
$ tar xzf python-pypeg2.tar.gz
$ cd python-pypeg2
$ makepkg -si
$ cd ..
$ rm -r python-pypeg2 python-pypeg2.tar.gz

$ wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qu/qutebrowser/qutebrowser.tar.gz
$ tar xzf qutebrowser.tar.gz
$ cd qutebrowser
$ makepkg -si
$ cd ..
$ rm -r qutebrowser qutebrowser.tar.gz
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or you could use an AUR helper, e.g. `yaourt -S qutebrowser-git`.

On Gentoo
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qutebrowser is available in the main repository and can be installed with:

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# emerge -av qutebrowser
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Make sure you have `python3_4` in your `PYTHON_TARGETS`
(`/etc/portage/make.conf`) and rebuild your system (`emerge -uDNav @world`) if
necessary.

On Void Linux
-------------

qutebrowser is available in the official repositories and can be installed
with:

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# xbps-install qutebrowser
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On NixOS
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Nixpkgs collection contains `pkgs.qutebrowser` since June 2015. You can install
it with:

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$ nix-env -i qutebrowser
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On Windows
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You can either use one of the
https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/releases[prebuilt standalone
packages or MSI installers], or install manually:

* Use the installer from http://www.python.org/downloads[python.org] to get
Python 3 (be sure to install pip).
* Use the installer from
http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download5[Riverbank computing]
to get Qt and PyQt5.
* Install https://testrun.org/tox/latest/index.html[tox] via
https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/[pip]:

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$ pip install tox
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Then <<tox,install qutebrowser via tox>>.

On OS X
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To install qutebrowser on OS X, you'll want a package manager, e.g.
http://brew.sh/[Homebrew] or https://www.macports.org/[MacPorts]. Also make
sure, you have https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/xcode/id497799835[XCode]
installed to compile PyQt5 in a later step.

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$ brew install python3 pyqt5
$ pip3.4 install qutebrowser
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if you are using Homebrew. For MacPorts, run:

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$ sudo port install python34 py34-jinja2 asciidoc py34-pygments py34-pyqt5
$ sudo pip3.4 install qutebrowser
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The preferences for qutebrowser are stored in
`~/Library/Preferences/qutebrowser`, the application data is stored in
`~/Library/Application Support/qutebrowser`.

Packagers
---------

There are example .desktop and icon files provided. They would go in the
standard location for your distro (`/usr/share/applications` and
`/usr/share/pixmaps` for example).

The normal `setup.py install` doesn't install these files, so you'll have to do
it as part of the packaging process.

[[tox]]
Installing qutebrowser with tox
-------------------------------

Run tox like this to set up a
https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html[virtual environment]:

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$ tox -e mkvenv
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This installs all needed Python dependencies in a `.venv` subfolder. The
system-wide Qt5/PyQt5 installations are symlinked into the virtual environment.

You can then create a simple wrapper script to start qutebrowser somewhere in
your `$PATH` (e.g. `/usr/local/bin/qutebrowser` or `~/bin/qutebrowser`):

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#!/bin/bash
~/path/to/qutebrowser/.venv/bin/python3 -m qutebrowser "$@"
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Updating
~~~~~~~~

When you updated your local copy of the code (e.g. by pulling the git repo, or
extracting a new version), the virtualenv should automatically use the updated
code. However, if dependencies got added, this won't be reflected in the
virtualenv. Thus it's recommended to run the following command to recreate the
virtualenv:

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$ tox -r -e mkvenv
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