#Installation Guide
This guide will help you in setting up nerdirc through console.
##Clone the project Clone the project from GitHub by running the following command:
git clone project_url_here
For nerdirc, this would correspond to:
git clone https://github.com/iogf/nerdirc.git
##Install virtualenv pip install virtualenv
Create a virtual environment for your project as shown below. venv here is name of the folder that will be created. It can be changed as per choice.
virtualenv -p /usr/lib/python3 venv
##Activating the virtualenv Get into the virtualenv where the bin file is present and activate it as follows-
cd venv
source bin/activate
##Installing python3
After activating the virtualenv we will start installing the necessities for the project.
sudo apt-get install python3
##Installing texlive
sudo apt-get install textlive
Note: If you aren't going to use the latex plugin then you don't need to install texlive at all.
##Installing Tkinter
sudo apt-get install python3-tk
Tkinter provides a robust and platform independent windowing toolkit, that is available to Python programmers.
##Installing setup file
Come out the virtual environment folder and get into the folder that was cloned.
cd ..
cd nerdirc
Install the setup file by running the following command
python setup.py install
##Run the application by the following command in the terminal ./nerdirc
##Deactivating virtualenv
When done working with the virtual environment, deactivate it by running following command.
deactivate