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Export your Signal chats to markdown files with attachments
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Installation instructions for Windows? #10

Closed cloudgreen closed 2 years ago

cloudgreen commented 3 years ago

I'm sorry, but I don't really understand how to run this on Windows. Do I just install Python and then run this?

I would really appreciate if someone could write some installation instructions for Windows. It would be great if the instructions were easy and not assuming developer skills. 😀

Thank you so much!

carderne commented 3 years ago

Hi @cloudgreen sorry I don't have a Windows computer available to try it out. I would assume the best way would be something like this:

  1. Download and install Anaconda
  2. Run conda install --file requirements.txt from within the directory (or manually install each of the libraries listed in requirements.txt.
  3. Run the script according to the instructions and hope for the best?

If you (or anyone else) get it working, please report back with what worked!

Absentity commented 3 years ago

I did this on Windows through WSL, if you’re willing to use that. (But I also use WSL for other things already, so I understand that that’s not an acceptable answer for all).

cloudgreen commented 3 years ago

Thanks a lot for the input! I would like to run it with a minimum of time spent... I would guess maybe Anaconda is quicker than WSL, I don't know... 🤔

@Absentity Is it time-consuming to get WSL up and running and get the Python script to work there?

franklin-be commented 3 years ago

Hey, i got it working with with wsl2. (with wsl1 i had problems with loads of packages) Just follow this tutorial to setup windows with wsl2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL7Jd9rjgrM (xrdp stuff not needed unless you wanna run signal-desktop on there too)

i also struggled with 18.04 so maybe get 20.04

Then follow the linux instructions here and get potentially missing packages along the way.