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Installation
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Requirements
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Bibtexparsers only requirement is a python interpreter which is not yet EOL (currently >= 3.7).

As of version 2.0.0, bibtexparser is a pure-python project (no direct bindings to C libraries).
As such, it should be rather easy to install on any platform.

Installation of current development version
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To install the latest version on the main branch (without manually cloning it), run:

.. code-block:: sh

    pip install --no-cache-dir --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/sciunto-org/python-bibtexparser@main


Installation from PyPI
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To install the latest release candidate (currently required to use v2) using pip:

.. code-block:: sh

    pip install --pre bibtexparser

without the ``--pre`` option, you will get the latest v1 version.
It has a different API and is not directly compatible with v2.


Installation from source
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Download the source from `Github <https://github.com/sciunto-org/python-bibtexparser/>`_.
Navigate to the root of the project and run the following command:

.. code-block:: sh

    pip install .

Or, if you want to install dev dependencies:

.. code-block:: sh

    pip install .[test,lint,docs]
