What exactly am I supposed to do here? about cursedownloader HOT 12 CLOSED

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Open a terminal and type that command.

For instance, let's assume you have the downloader script (and all the other files in this repository) in ~ (the Linux home directory) and manifest.json in ~/Downloads (the default location for downloaded files.)
If you're on Windows, the paths probably look something like C:\Users\YourUserName\ and C:\Users\YourUserName\Downloads
Once you've made sure you know the locations of those files, open a terminal and type python.

The output should look something like this:

Python 2.7.11+ (default, Apr 17 2016, 14:00:29) 
[GCC 5.3.1 20160413] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Go ahead and type exit() to exit the python interpreter.
(If you get an error saying the command wasn't recognized, you need to get Python from their website.)
On line one, you can see your Python version. Make sure it's 3.4 or above. In my case, it's not so I have to use the command python3.

Once you've affirmed your python version is correct, type your final command as follows:

python [Where downloader.py is] [Where manifest.json is]

OR if the first command fails to do it:

python3 [Where downloader.py is] [Where manifest.json is]

Of course, substitute in the actual paths and drop the brackets. If you still don't get it let me know.

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I'm running Windows 7, should have mentioned that earlier, I guess.
I don't know what a "terminal" is.
Do you mean cmd.exe? I've typed python, but it doesn't recognize that as a command.
I am certain that my installed version of python is 3.4.

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I don't know what a "terminal" is.

Under Windows, yeah that's cmd.exe or the Command Prompt as Windows officially calls it.
Look in the start menu, is there anything in a folder labeled 'Python' (or similar)? Should have items like IDLE, among others that I can't remember off the top of my head.

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I have these: http://puu.sh/p8aD6/1aa4303401.png

(didn't mean to close)

from cursedownloader.

Alright, so it looks like you did install Python successfully.

Please open 'Python (command line)' and post results.

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This is what it says when opened:

Python 3.4.0 <v3.4.0:04f714765c13, Mar 16 2014, 19:25:23>
[MSC v.1600 64 bit <AMD64>] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Then, typing python followed by both paths yields the following:
File "<stdin>", line 1
python [path to downloader.py] [path to manifest.json]
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>

from cursedownloader.

Okay, so Python is installed and working.
Try running python3 in a command prompt, and let me know what happens.

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cmd:
same output as python

python command line:
Traceback <most recent call last>:
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name'python3' is not defined
>>>

from cursedownloader.

No, I mean open a new Windows command line and try to run python3. Should've made that clearer, sorry.

from cursedownloader.

Please explain like I'm five.
Am I supposed to install python 3.0?
Typing python3 into a new command line does the same as typing python.
It doesn't recognize it as a command.

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Hmm, alright. If you have Python 3.4 or greater installed correctly, running python or python3 should bring up the Python interpreter.

The latest and greatest version can be found here.
Once you've made sure that's installed, and you can get python or python3 to work right, you should them be able to type python [path to downloader.py] [path to manifest.json] or python3 [path to downloader.py] [path to manifest.json] and get the script to run.
If for some reason using the Python installer doesn't get you to at least calling the interpreter from cmd, I really can't help you. I'm too used to it being built in (Ubuntu comes with Python).

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3.5 does not work either.
At least you tried, thank you for that.

Update: Finally got python to run via the command line, then I installed modules or whatever they are called. Thanks to another issue thread, I knew how.
It appears to be working properly.

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