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Installation
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Windows
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Persalys requires Windows >=10.

The default language setting can be overidden with the argument :code:`--lang=en|fr` added to the launcher executable command-line.

To do so right-click on the desktop shortcut, select ``Properties``, then edit the ``target`` field::

    ...\persalys_launcher.exe --lang en

In the same fashion the bundled software OpenGL renderer can be enabled/disabled with the argument :code:`--mesa=1|0`.

Linux
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Requirements:

  - glibc >=2.28 (Debian 10+, Ubuntu 18.10+, Fedora 29+, CentOS/RHEL 8+)
  - X11/Wayland with OpenGL >=3.2
  - FUSE userspace filesystem

The AppImage binary requires the libfuse2 package to run which might not be installed by default, for example on Ubuntu::

    $ sudo apt install libfuse2t64

No installation is required, set the executable bit if needed and just run the .AppImage as follows::

    $ chmod a+rx persalys-x.y-x86_64.AppImage
    $ ./persalys-x.y-x86_64.AppImage

The LANGUAGE environment variable can be set to ``en`` or ``fr`` to override the default language::

    $ LANGUAGE=fr ./persalys-x.y-x86_64.AppImage

Note that documentation links from the GUI cannot be opened in a snap-sandboxed browser: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1972762.

Additional Python packages
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The Python environment can be amended with additional packages using the included nopip module
by typing the following in the :ref:`Python console <pythonconsole>`::

     from nopip import install
     install.modules(["<module_name>", "--user"], verbose=True)

where ``<module_name>`` is the PyPI module name of the desired package.

Modules are then installed in ``~/.persalys_base`` on Linux and in ``<USER_DIR>\AppData\Roaming\Persalys\`` on Windows.