Windows Installation

Executable

A self contained executable can be Downloaded Simply download the zip file, unpack the scm.exe file.

Run

Double click scm.exe. For help using the interface see Windows.

To use the command line version use scm-cmd.exe (useful for scheduling daily updates of lists).

Source install

Many will be rightly concerned about downloading an executable from an Internet source. Your alternative is to download the python source...

To use the source distribution first download and install Python 3.

Then the recommended option is to use the following command from a powershell window (a cmdwindow will not work, as Python does not set the appropriate paths up):

pip3 install scm-helper

Run

Type the following in powershell

scm 

Updates

To get the latest software, depending on how you got the software use either:

• download the latest scm.zip, or
• pip3 install scm-helper --upgrade

To install source via git

git clone https://github.com/ColinRobbins/scm-helper.git
cd scm-helper/
python3 setup.py install

Then to run

scm 

or

python3 scm.py

Updating

git pull