AnkiBrain

See AnkiBrain on AnkiWeb for more information.

Local Mode Installation (manual install)

Remarks

Linux

Please notice that this addon doesn't work when Anki is installed as a Flatpak. To resolve this, simply install Anki from the official website using the .deb package.

Installation steps

1. Open terminal in the AnkiBrain addon root folder (you'll see a requirements.txt file)

2. Install C++ build tools for your OS

   1. Windows
      1. Download: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
      2. Click "Desktop Development with C++" (do not skip this step)
      3. Install
   2. MacOS xcode-select --install
   3. Linux

   sudo apt install -y git build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev curl libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev

3. Setup Python 3.9.13 virtual environment in the root addon directory

   1. Install pyenv for your operating system

      1. Windows, using powershell (original guide here)

      Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pyenv-win/pyenv-win/master/pyenv-win/install-pyenv-win.ps1" -OutFile "./install-pyenv-win.ps1"; &"./install-pyenv-win.ps1"
      $env:Path = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path', 'Machine')

      2. MacOS

         # Install homebrew
         /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
         
         brew update
         brew install pyenv
         echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.zshrc
         echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
         echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.zshrc
         exec "$SHELL"

      3. Linux

      curl https://pyenv.run | bash
      
      echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc
      echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
      echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
      echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.profile
      echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
      echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.profile
      
      . ~/.bashrc
      . ~/.profile

   2. pyenv install 3.9.13

   3. pyenv local 3.9.13

   4. python -m venv venv

4. Activate Python virtual environment

   1. Windows: .\venv\Scripts\active
   2. MacOS/Linux: ./venv/bin/activate

5. Install python dependencies

   1. pip install -r requirements.txt
   2. Should produce no errors

6. Addon should be OK to run now