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Introduction

These instructions assume you are comfortable with command-line interfaces such as Terminal and package managers like pip and homebrew.

If you are not familiar with command-line interfaces, we strongly recommend using Bagger instead of bagit-python. If you are familiar with command-line interfaces, you may prefer bagit-python to Bagger.

The following instructions can be used for Mac, Linux, and Windows computers, unless otherwise noted.

Installing bagit-python

  • Open your terminal of choice.
  • Depending on which package manager you use, install bagit-python with one of the following commands.
    • pip3 install bagit-python
    • pip install bagit-python
    • brew install bagit (Mac only)
  • Confirm that bagit-python is installed. bagit.py --version

Run bagit-python