This document is for plugins of ARGOS RPA.

• Need python3.x (Recommended more than version 3.7)
• You can check the python version with -V option

python3 -V

When you build python module you need to python virtual environment.

You can create the virtual environment at the terminal in MacOS or Linux.

cd $HOME
python3 -m venv py3ve

Or you can create at the CMD.EXE in Windows 10.

C:
cd %USERPROFILE%
python.exe -m venv py3ve

You have to activate virtualenv in order to use virtualenv.

You can activate in MacOS or Linux.

cd $HOME
source py3ve/bin/activate
(py3ve)

Or you can activate in Windows.

C:
cd %USERPROFILE%
py3ve\Scripts\activate.bat
(py3ve)

Note: (py3ve) will be added at terminal shell prompt.

Note: This installation must under proper virtualenv so activate first.

pip or pip.exe is the package installer for python.

If pip or pip.exe is not found you can install pip from get-pip.py

When all work done it needed to exit virtualenv you can do deactivate command.

deactivate

• You can install alabs.ppm

pip install alabs.ppm --index https://pypi-official.argos-labs.com/simple

• You can list and check this alabs.ppm utility is installed porperly.

$ pip list
Package    Version
---------- --------------
alabs.ppm  18.1227.105544
...

Version number may be different.

Note: This installation must under proper virtualenv so activate first.

You can install plugin.

$ alabs.ppm install argoslabs.data.binaryop

And then you can list and check this plugin is installed properly.

$ pip list
Package                   Version
------------------------- ----------------
argoslabs.data.binayop 1.0.190103.90001