Installing XOA Converter
XOA Converter is available to install and upgrade via the Python Package Index. Alternatively, you can also install and upgrade from the source file.
- If you prefer installing/upgrading/uninstalling automatically, go to Section From PyPi Using pip. 
- If you prefer installing/upgrading manually, go to Section Manually From Source. 
Prerequisites
Before installing XOA Converter, please make sure your environment has installed Python and pip.
Python
XOA Converter requires that you install Python on your system.
Note
XOA Converter requires Python >= 3.8.
pip
Make sure pip is installed on your system. pip is the package installer for Python . You can use it to install packages from the Python Package Index  and other indexes.
Usually, pip is automatically installed if you are:
- working in a virtual Python environment (virtualenv or venv ). It is not necessary to use - sudo pipinside a virtual Python environment.
- using Python downloaded from python.org 
If you don’t have pip installed, you can:
- Download the script, from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py. 
- Open a terminal/command prompt, - cdto the folder containing the- get-pip.pyfile and run:
$ python3 get-pip.py
See also
Read more details about this script in pypa/get-pip.
Read more about installation of pip in pip installation.
From PyPi Using pip
Install
pip is the recommended installer for XOA Converter. The most common usage of pip is to install from the Python Package Index using Requirement Specifiers.
$ pip install tdl-xoa-converter         # latest version
$ pip install tdl-xoa-converter==1.0.1     # specific version
$ pip install tdl-xoa-converter>=1.0.1     # minimum version
Upgrade
To upgrade XOA Converter package from PyPI:
$ pip install tdl-xoa-converter -U
Uninstall
To uninstall XOA Converter using pip:
$ pip uninstall tdl-xoa-converter
See also
For more information, see the pip uninstall reference.
Manually From Source
Install or Upgrade
If for some reason you need to install or upgrade XOA Converter manually from source, the steps are:
First, make sure Python packages wheel and  setuptools are installed on your system. Install wheel and setuptools using pip:
$ pip install wheel setuptools
Then, download the XOA Converter source distribution from XOA Converter Releases. Unzip the archive and run the setup.py script to install the package:
$ python3 setup.py install
If you want to distribute, you can build .whl file for distribution from the source:
$ python3 setup.py bdist_wheel