Thread:Project:Support desk/installing pywikibot

Based on the instuctions in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Installation#Download_Pywikibot The easiest way to download Pywikibot is to use the latest nightly release. Just download the pywikibot zip file to your computer and decompress the file – there is no further installation required.

So I downloaded the core.zip file. But where do I decompress it? I thought it should go into

Python27/Lib/

so I created a pywikibot directory there and put the decompressed file tree into that directory, but my attempts to run

python setup.py build python setup.py install

both produce the error message

error: package directory 'pywikibot' does not exist

I already tried asking on the IRC #pywikibot channel but received no response. Thanks Kerry Raymond (talk) 05:26, 17 September 2014 (UTC)