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Installing Pelican
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Using Pelican on Windows
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If you are using **Git Bash** on Windows, you may encounter:
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bash: pelican-quickstart: command not found
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**Reason:** Bash does not automatically recognize Python’s Scripts folder on Windows.
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**Solutions:**
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1. **Use PowerShell** (recommended) instead of Git Bash:
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pelican-quickstart
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2. **Use WSL** (Windows Subsystem for Linux) if you prefer a Linux-like environment.
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3. **Check your PATH**: On PowerShell, if you get:
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<command name>: The term '<command name>' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
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then the Python Scripts folder may not be in your PATH. Add it:
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C:\Users\<your-username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Scripts
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4. **Alternative quickfix:** Run the scripts directly with Python:
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py C:\Users\<your-username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\pelican\tools\pelican_quickstart.py
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py -m pelican -r -l
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-------------------------------
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Kickstart your site
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-------------------
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Pelican currently runs best on |min_python|; earlier versions of Python are not supported.
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You can install Pelican via several different methods. The simplest is via Pip_::
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python -m pip install pelican
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Or, if you plan on using Markdown::
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python -m pip install "pelican[markdown]"
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(Keep in mind that some operating systems will require you to prefix the above
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command with ``sudo`` in order to install Pelican system-wide.)
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While the above is the simplest method, the recommended approach is to create a
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virtual environment for Pelican via virtualenv_ before installing Pelican.
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Assuming you have virtualenv_ installed, you can then open a new terminal
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session and create a new virtual environment for Pelican::
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virtualenv ~/virtualenvs/pelican
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cd ~/virtualenvs/pelican
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source bin/activate
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Once the virtual environment has been created and activated, Pelican can be
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installed via ``python -m pip install pelican`` as noted above. Alternatively, if you
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have the project source, you can install Pelican using the setuptools method::
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cd path-to-Pelican-source
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python -m pip install .
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If you have Git installed and prefer to install the latest bleeding-edge
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version of Pelican rather than a stable release, use the following command::
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python -m pip install -e "git+https://github.com/getpelican/pelican.git#egg=pelican"
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Once Pelican is installed, you can run ``pelican --help`` to see basic usage
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options. For more detail, refer to the :doc:`Publish<publish>` section.
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Optional packages
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-----------------
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If you plan on using `Markdown <https://pypi.org/project/Markdown/>`_ as a
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markup format, you can install Pelican with Markdown support::
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python -m pip install "pelican[markdown]"
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Typographical enhancements can be enabled in your settings file, but first the
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requisite `Typogrify <https://pypi.org/project/typogrify/>`_ library must be
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installed::
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python -m pip install typogrify
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Dependencies
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------------
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When Pelican is installed, the following dependent Python packages should be
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automatically installed without any action on your part:
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* `feedgenerator <https://pypi.org/project/feedgenerator/>`_, to generate the
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Atom feeds
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* `jinja2 <https://pypi.org/project/Jinja2/>`_, for templating support
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* `pygments <https://pypi.org/project/Pygments/>`_, for syntax highlighting
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* `docutils <https://pypi.org/project/docutils/>`_, for supporting
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reStructuredText as an input format
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* `blinker <https://pypi.org/project/blinker/>`_, an object-to-object and
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broadcast signaling system
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* `unidecode <https://pypi.org/project/Unidecode/>`_, for ASCII
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transliterations of Unicode text
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utilities
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* `MarkupSafe <https://pypi.org/project/MarkupSafe/>`_, for a markup-safe
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string implementation
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* `python-dateutil <https://pypi.org/project/python-dateutil/>`_, to read
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the date metadata
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Upgrading
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---------
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If you installed a stable Pelican release via Pip_ and wish to upgrade to
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the latest stable release, you can do so by adding ``--upgrade``::
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python -m pip install --upgrade pelican
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If you installed Pelican via distutils or the bleeding-edge method, simply
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perform the same step to install the most recent version.
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Kickstart your site
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-------------------
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Once Pelican has been installed, you can create a skeleton project via the
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``pelican-quickstart`` command, which begins by asking some questions about
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your site::
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pelican-quickstart
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If run inside an activated virtual environment, ``pelican-quickstart`` will
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look for an associated project path inside ``$VIRTUAL_ENV/.project``. If that
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file exists and contains a valid directory path, the new Pelican project will
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be saved at that location. Otherwise, the default is the current working
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directory. To set the new project path on initial invocation, use:
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``pelican-quickstart --path /your/desired/directory``
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Once you finish answering all the questions, your project will consist of the
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following hierarchy (except for *pages* — shown in parentheses below — which
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you can optionally add yourself if you plan to create non-chronological
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content)::
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yourproject/
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├── content
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│ └── (pages)
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├── output
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├── tasks.py
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├── Makefile
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├── pelicanconf.py # Main settings file
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└── publishconf.py # Settings to use when ready to publish
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The next step is to begin to adding content to the *content* folder that has
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been created for you.
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.. _Pip: https://pip.pypa.io/
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.. _virtualenv: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/
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