Install command does not work

[Drachenbauer]

In your description there is this:

Installation

pip install diffractsim

Alternatively, to download the examples and the apertures as well, you can also build from source by cloning the repository and running from the main folder project on the command prompt:

python install .

I downloaded a zip folder of your repository and unpacked it.
After unpacking, the contents are inside 2 nested folders of the same name (with "-main" at the end).
But my powershell outputted this, as i at first tried the second command and than tried to run the included setup.py:

PS F:\Mods\diffractsim-main\diffractsim-main> python install .
C:\Program Files\Inkscape\bin\python.exe: can't open file 'F:\Mods\diffractsim-main\diffractsim-main\install': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

PS F:\Mods\diffractsim-main\diffractsim-main> python setup.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "F:\Mods\diffractsim-main\diffractsim-main\setup.py", line 1, in <module>
    from setuptools import setup, find_packages
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'setuptools'

I taught "running from the main folder project" in your description means navigating the powershell to the inner of the 2 identical named folders (where the actual repo-stuff is in) for running the second command.
i really want to do that second method, because i also want to get the examples and stuff in my installation.

what did I maybe understand wrong in how to perform the second installation-method?

[rafael-fuente]

Hello,

It seems that to install the package locally, you simply need to have installed setuptools beforehand. Setuptools can be installed via pip:

pip install setuptools

[Drachenbauer]

installed setuptools now, but the command:
python install .
still gives the same error.

And when I try to run the setup.py in the repo manually with python, a window pops up and closes after less than a second and I see no changes in my file-system.