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Documentation: manual installation of manim as a local package#4456

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Overview: What does this pull request change?

Motivation and Explanation: Why and how do your changes improve the library?

Updates the installation documentation to include a troubleshooting method for installing the source
files of the project independent of current releases. Closes #4439

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https://docs.manim.community/en/latest/contributing.html

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Reviewer Checklist

  • The PR title is descriptive enough for the changelog, and the PR is labelled correctly
  • If applicable: newly added non-private functions and classes have a docstring including a short summary and a PARAMETERS section
  • If applicable: newly added functions and classes are tested

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Hi! Thanks for the proposed changes and sorry for the long delay -- I've left some suggestions to remove potentially confusing and unnecessary instructions. Please take a look!

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Thanks for your contribution and patience! I pushed follow-up fixes to address the requested changes (template checklist reverted, and the new uv section simplified/reworded). LGTM.

@behackl behackl merged commit cd37061 into ManimCommunity:main Feb 22, 2026
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