moht 0.5.0

Simple yet powerful tool to help you manage your mods in several ways.

Mod Helper Tool

Simple yet powerful tool to help you manage your mods in several ways.

Name

MHT and MOTH was already occupied by another projects, so MOd Helper Tool, MOHT in short was born. Anyway if you not pay attention to details or your english is not fluent (as mine) logo fits like a glove.

General

For now, application can only clean your mods, but in future more features will be added.

• Run Linux, Windows and Mac
• Two built-in version tes3cmd binary (0.37 and 0.40) - no additional downloads needed
• Allow to select custom tes3cmd executable file
• Select location of directory with Mods
• Select location of Morrowind/Data Files directory
• Simple report after cleaning

Requirements

• Python 3.7+ (with tcl/tk support, see GUI Tk) should be fine
• Linux users require install additional Perl module
• Optional:
  • PyQt5 for Qt GUI version, see GUI Style
  • pip >= 22.2.1 - use to check new version of Moht

Installation

1. Any Python version grater the 3.7 with tcl/tk support
2. Package is available on PyPI, open Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe) or any terminal and type:

   pip install moht
   

3. You can drag and drop moht_tk.exe to desktop and make shortcut (with custom icon, you can find icon in installation directory i.e. C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\moht\img\moht.ico).

GUI Tk

By default, application use tkinter (tk for short) Python's built-in library for GUI. Install with:

pip install moht

You can find executable called moht_tk.exe or script moht_tk. However, sometimes tk isn't available by default:

• Windows 10/11, during Python installation please select:
  • Optional Features:
    • pip
    • tcl/tk and IDLE
    • py launcher
  • Advanced Options:
    • Associate files with Python (requires the py launcher)
    • Add Python to environment variables
    • Customize install location: C:\Python310 or C:\Python
• Debian

  sudo apt install python3-tk
  

• OpenSUSE

  sudo zypper install python3-tk
  

GUI PyQt5

You can choose to install PyQt5 version of GUI as well. Please note this will require depending on platform (~50 MB or ~200 MB) of additional space.

pip install moht[qt5]

You can find executable called moht_qt.exe or script moht_qt.

Perl module

perl-Config-IniFiles is required for tes3cmd which Moht use to clean-up mods. Install with

• Debian

  sudo apt install python3-tk
  

• OpenSUSE

  sudo zypper install python3-tk
  

Start

• Windows You can find executable(s) with little trick, open Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe) and type:

  pip uninstall moht
  

  Note: answer No to question. It will show you, where Moht was installed. Usually pip should install moht into your Python directory: i.e.:

  C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\moht-0.5.0.dist-info\*
  C:\Python310\lib\site-packages\moht\*
  C:\Python310\scripts\moht_qt.exe
  C:\Python310\scripts\moht_tk.exe
  

• Linux - simply run moht_tk or moht_qt from terminal

Upgrade

To upgrade Moht to the latest version:

pip install -U moht

Uninstall

pip install -qy moht

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