novelWriter is in the official Fedora repos — but the packaged version is old enough to write a different project file format, which matters a lot if you write on more than one machine. Here’s the pipx route, the enchant2/hunspell step macOS doesn’t need, and how to switch over if you already used dnf.
The DMG builds for novelWriter are gone, and the official pip commands don’t work on modern macOS either. Here’s why, and how pipx fixes it in about five minutes.
CentOS 6 comes with Python 2.6 installed, and CentOS 7 comes with Python 2.7. But right now, Python 3.5 is all the rage, so I thought I’d install it alongside Python 2.x on the same machine.
Here’s how I did it.
I’m using a CentOS 6 32 bit system here, but I’ve tried the same on a CentOS 7 64 bit rig. You need to be root or have superuser privileges to do this successfully.
