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Once the application is installed, you can launch it:

  • Windows: from the "Start Menu" or from C:\Program Files\Picteus\Picteus.exe ;
  • macOS: from the "Applications" folder or from /Applications/Picteus.app.

Only one instance of the application is authorized to be running at the same time, and if you attempt to start another instance, you will get an error.

First launch​

During the first start-up of the application:

  1. because the application relies on Python and Node.js runtimes, it will download those runtimes ;
  2. because the application is extensible and ships built-in extensions, it will install them along with their dependencies ;
  3. because some extensions rely on Machine Learning libraries, some large tensor files will be downloaded.

This is the reason why the first launch takes time, about 2 minutes, provided you have a descent Internet connection.

CLI​

You can start the application from the command line in your favorite terminal and fine-tune its configuration and behavior via options and commands. To discover what those options are, run the following command:

  • Windows:
Windows Command Prompt
start /wait "" "C:\Program Files\Picteus\Picteus.exe" --help
Windows PowerShell
Start-Process "C:\Program Files\Picteus\Picteus.exe" "--help" -Wait
  • macOS:
macOS shell
/Applications/Picteus.app/Contents/MacOS/Picteus --help

For now, there is only one run command, which starts the application and to get the documentation of its options, run the following command:

  • Windows:
Windows Command Prompt
start /wait "" "C:\Program Files\Picteus\Picteus.exe" run --help
Windows PowerShell
Start-Process "C:\Program Files\Picteus\Picteus.exe" "run --help" -Wait
  • macOS:
macOS shell
/Applications/Picteus.app/Contents/MacOS/Picteus run --help

Simply use the following command if you do not need to set options:

  • Windows:
Windows Command Prompt
start /wait "" "C:\Program Files\Picteus\Picteus.exe"
Windows PowerShell
Start-Process "C:\Program Files\Picteus\Picteus.exe" -Wait
  • macOS:
macOS shell
/Applications/Picteus.app/Contents/MacOS/Picteus

Starting the application from the command line enables you to access its log output directly in the terminal. For a full description of the traces available in Picteus — including the front-end activities feed, the log stream configuration, and log file locations — refer to the Traces documentation.