Installing

A single command, pip install tcode-cli, is the entire installation procedure. There is no separate installer to download first and no post-install setup step; pip is the download mechanism itself, resolving your exact Python version and operating system and fetching the matching pre-built package directly from PyPI.

Because the package is pre-built rather than compiled on your machine, the command typically finishes in seconds on a normal connection, the same as installing any other small, well-packaged library. If you use pyenv, conda, or a project-local virtual environment, run the identical command inside that environment specifically, which installs tCode there rather than into your system-wide Python.

If Python is not installed yet, that has to happen first, since pip is a part of Python itself rather than a separate program. On Windows, the simplest path is the official installer from python.org; the one thing worth double-checking during setup is the "Add python.exe to PATH" checkbox on the installer's first screen, since leaving it unchecked is the single most common reason pip and python are not recognized in a terminal afterward.

On Linux, Python usually already comes preinstalled; python3 --version confirms this and shows the version. If it is missing entirely, the normal path is your distribution's own package manager, sudo apt install python3 python3-pip on Debian and Ubuntu, or the equivalent for your distribution, rather than building Python from source.

Once Python and pip are confirmed working, pip install tcode-cli behaves identically regardless of how Python itself was installed. tCode is then available as the tcode command from a new terminal. See Quickstart for what a first session actually looks like once installation is done.