For those of us who like living on the bleeding edge and want to help testing the latest changes and bug-fixes, you can run Nicotine+ directly from the git repository. This is not particularly hard, but it may come with some additional required skills, like installing dependencies and managing changes in the database and the config files.
To run Nicotine+ directly from a folder, run the following:
git clone https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus.git
cd nicotine-plus
./nicotine
To update to newer versions of Nicotine+, run the following:
cd nicotine-plus
git pull
To install Nicotine+ locally (no root required), run the following:
pip install git+https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus.git
Nicotine+ will now be available in your list of programs.
To update to newer versions of Nicotine+, run the same command as previously:
pip install git+https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus.git
To uninstall Nicotine+, run:
pip uninstall nicotine-plus
For Windows, follow the instructions in PACKAGING.md instead