Installation

P2PD is available on PyPI and Github.

python3 -m pip install p2pd

P2PD also comes with optional dependencies. These are required depending on the functionality to be used. E.g. mysql packages to run a PNP server. There’s no harm in installing the extra dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/robertsdotpm/p2pd.git
cd p2pd
python3 setup.py develop
python3 -m pip install -r optional-test-requirements.txt
python3 -m pip install -r optional-server-requirements.txt

Installation on older systems

The general process for getting P2PD to work on old machines involves getting the highest version of Python 3 work and then updating pip using the get-pip.py script for your Python version. E.g. let’s say you get Python 3.5 to work. You would run and then run python3 -m pip install p2pd.

https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.5/get-pip.py

Windows Vista

You will need Python 3.7 to avoid bugs with encoding on Windows Vista. https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-370/

Windows XP

  1. Apply all Windows updates from legacyupdate.net.

  2. Install Visual C++ AIO Repack (it installs lots of dependencies to install software for XP)
    Mirror 1: https://archive.org/details/visual-cpp-redist-aio-x-86-x-64-35
    Mirror 2: https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2020/04/visual-c-redistributable-runtimes-aio.html
  3. Install Python 3.5 Runtime Redistributable to a folder in the root of your C drive (this is the only version of Python 3 I’ve gotten to work on XP and it has working asyncio!)
    Mirror 1: https://archive.org/details/python-35-win-xp
    Mirror 2: https://msfn.org/board/topic/176131-python-35-runtime-redistributable-backported-to-xp/

  4. Download pip installer and run it: https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/3.5/get-pip.py

  5. Install p2pd: python.exe -m pip install p2pd