Installation

Stable release

To install ged2doc, run this command in your terminal:

$ pip install ged2doc

This is the preferred method to install GEDCOM Utilities, as it will always install the most recent stable release.

If you don’t have pip installed, this Python installation guide can guide you through the process.

From sources

The sources for ged2doc can be downloaded from the Github repo.

You can either clone the repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/andy-z/ged2doc

Or download the tarball:

$ curl  -OL https://github.com/andy-z/ged2doc/tarball/master

Once you have a copy of the source, you can install it with:

$ python setup.py install

Binary install on Windows

Both previous variants can be used on Windows platform if you install Python first, any reasonable Python distribution can work. Alternative variant that does not require Python installation is to install ged2doc as a separate Windows application which includes all necessary components. Download an installer (EXE file) from latest release (or any specific release) and execute it on your computer. After installation Program Menu and Desktop will show a ged2doc shortcut which starts a command prompt with access to ged2doc command line application.