TwinVine is a sophisticated piece of software engineering, (if I am allowed to say that) , handling two Python packages at once, each inter-playing with the other. It needs treating differently from anything you will have used before.
All access must be done via the package manager - uv. You have two ways in
To go to the command line use of 'envied', on Linix you may select 'run envied' after clicking the GUI envied button. On Windows, close the GUI directly, or ctrl+c to end the program and return to the terminal.
**Installation for Windows** with a bare machine and novice user. (Why not print out these instructions so you can tick them off as you work through them?)
You are going to install all the required binary files and automatically add then to system variable - Path. The Python interpreter will be installed automatically too.
- download git from https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.52.0.windows.1/Git-2.52.0-64-bit.exe and run the installer
- re-start your machine
- Open Start
- Type PowerShell and select open PowerShell
- Within PowerShell change directory, chdir, or cd, to your chosen location, where TwinVine is to be installed, and type the following command followed by enter,
- Inside PowerShell, change directory to TwinVine (cd TwinVine) and run the following command by copying or typing the line, followed by pressing enter.
- Watch the installation, a number of binary files will be downloaded and installed to C:\Tool\bin. Installation will take a while. After finishing, close PowerShell and restart your machine.
- Open Start
- Type PowerShell
- Type uv [return]. Expect to see a screen of help. If uv did not install from the Install-media-tools.ps1 script you will not see any response. Uv is a python package manager.
- If uv is not installed close PowerShell and re-open as administrator, so
- Open Start
- Type PowerShell
- Right-click Windows PowerShell → Run as administrator
There is an installation file to install binaries. Install-media-tools.sh. Open it in a text editor and edit lines 6 and 7. Change the Debian/Ubuntu package-manager command 'apt-get' to whatever your package manager uses (dnf, pacman, yast, etc)
Then save and close and run the script with
```
sudo bash ./Install-media-tools.sh
```
The script will take some time to install. Check uv is installed.
If not, you can install uv with the following command in a terminal window
```
wget -qO- https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
```
Finally, cd to TwinVine and run each command in order,
As configured your files will be downloaded to TwinVine/packages/envied/src/downloads/
The envied.yaml can be edited for the download location - use a full path, on windows with forward slashes C:/Users/Downloads and Linux /home/user/Downloads, for example.
Cookies: As configured the Cookies folder is in packages/envied/src/. Each cookie file - type .txt should be names exactly as the service eg DNSP.txt and you personal login cookie placed inside.
WVDs: A CDM - called device.wvd is located at TwinVine/WVDs
Vaults: No local vaults are configured but a remote vault is used for caching and fetching. Often times you will see DRMLab s the source of the license key -saving unnecessary requests to a license server.
