Do not understand documentation to add third party Arduino libraries

Greetings,

According to the Custom Arduino Libraries Documentation, you are asked to use the host terminal (Windows in my case) to install third party libraries.

What I am failing to comprehend is when and how. Say I have downloaded the third party library and its folder is in my Download folder. I have also installed the library to my Arduino IDE. How is it then, that this installer works? Is this needed to be completed prior to the remaining steps of writing the source header file?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

I suggest you use

arduino-cli lib install --zip-path /PATH/TO/RoboClaw.zip --config-file arduino-cli.yam

[Clayton Allen]

This looks like a Mac/Linux command line... Am I right?

[Clayton Allen]

Worked... Just needed to set the enable-unsafe-install to true in the yaml file. Please consider adding your response as an answer so that I may accept it as such. And thank you for your assitstance!

[Walter Roberson]

It is not particularily a linux command.

I was working off of documentation for cli-exe that showed linux-style paths even though the documentation was implicitly for Windows