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Mac usage? #3

Closed ftrotter closed 4 years ago

ftrotter commented 4 years ago

It is not at all clear how to install this Add On using the Mac OSX.

There is no "Tools" menu that I can find. for instance.. and there are no manual installation instructions in the README on this repo.

-FT

ijgnd commented 4 years ago

Most users don't install add-ons from the github source but from the official add-on site https://ankiweb.net/shared/addons/2.1.

Does this video help: https://youtu.be/1vefco4uwlk?t=11

 

there are no manual installation instructions in the README on this repo.

the repo here just mirrors what's on ankiweb. As far as I see, manually installing doesn't offer any benefits unless you want to modify the add-on. Even in this case you could also just change the add-on that you installed from ankiweb.

 

Some technical details:

About a year ago anki introduced a new addon packaging file type (zip files named ".ankiaddon" that contain a manifest.json file with two entries). Add-on creators who don't want their add-on on ankiweb listed use it, e.g. to sell their add-on or to distribute versions for testing. I didn't create such a file. If you really want to use it you could zip the contents of the folder "src" from this repo and name it hyperlink.ankiaddon.

For a full manual install create a subfolder in your addons21 folder in your anki profile and copy the contents of the src folder from this repo into it and restart Anki.

Many repos for anki add-ons don't have manual install instructions. This approach "new folder in addons21 and copy the part of the github repo that contains an __init__.py file" works for most anki add-ons shared on github unless they contain user interface elements that need to be built with software from the underlying toolkit qt.