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Installation on Windows
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For Windows, we provide what we call a 'portable package'. You don't have
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to install anything "system" wide. Just unzip & run:
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For Windows, we provide what we call a 'portable package'. This is the easiest
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way to get Kivy running as you don't have to install anything "system" wide.
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You can just unzip & run it.
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This installation method is simple because it bundles the Python interpreter
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together with the Kivy environment and libraries. If you wish to install Kivy
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into an existing Python environment or install the development environment,
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please see the :ref:`Other Environments <other_environments>` section below.
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Installing the portable version
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#. Download the latest version from http://kivy.org/#download
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2. ``cd Python/Scripts``
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.. _other_environments:
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Other Environments
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