Pip is a package manager to organize Python libraries and modules. You want to have it installed because later we’re going to use it to install python libraries to a virtual environment that Glyph is going run happily inside.

Type ’pip’ in your Terminal. If you get a long list of a bunch of commands that you can make with pip, this means your computer knows what you’re talking about because pip is installed.

If it isn’t installed, install it following these instructions. This instruction guide will have you ( 1 ) download ‘get-pip.py’, a python script. To run ‘python get-pip.py’ like they tell you to, you have to ( 2 ) navigate to the directory where that file is using the ‘cd’ command we talked about in the Terminal post. As the instructions say, you might need “administrative access” to run this, which will require typing ‘sudo’ before this command, and/or typing in your computer password later– as in ( 3 ) ‘sudo python get-pip.py’.

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Glyph set-up: Make sure you have pip installed.