Installing ReText

General instructions

Usually, all you have to do to install ReText, is:

1. Install Python 3.

2. Run this command:

   $ python3 -m pip install ReText --user
   

(The --user argument is needed for local installations, drop it and run the command as a superuser if you want to install ReText system-wide).

For users of Linux distributions

If ReText is available in your system repository, install it from there.

For example, on Debian or Ubuntu, run:

# apt install retext

For users of Windows and macOS

Note: these systems are in no way officially supported. Use ReText there at your own risk.

The pip install ReText command will automatically download and extract the icon pack. If something went wrong and there are no icons, please download the latest version and extract it manually into the icons directory.

On Windows, that command will also install a retext.bat file to make it easier to run ReText.