Appendix C. Installing guizero on other operating systems and features of guizero
You may remember from chapter 1 that GUI stands for Graphical User Interface and is pronounced “gooey.” A GUI offers an easy way for the user to interact with a computer or device using graphics and images. Guizero is a programming library that contains all the code and widgets to create and build GUIs in Python.
There are several methods to install guizero onto your computer and it has even been designed so that you can simply download the program files and build GUIs.
Chapter 1 tells how to install guizero on a Windows computer. This appendix covers how to install guizero on other operating systems such as macOS, the Raspberry Pi, and Linux. It also covers the guizero Easy Install method which requires no installation; you simply download the required files and then guizero is ready to use.
The Easy Install method is useful if you are not permitted to download and install software on your computer. For example, if you do not have the required access permissions, or you are using a computer that you share with other people. Maybe you are using someone else’s computer and they do not want you to install additional software!
The last section of this appendix covers the key features of the guizero. Let us start with the Easy Install method first.