Hi everyone. I'm an extreme newbie here, and you'll instantly notice by my question. I have no coding/CLI exp, so I get stuck at every single step. I'm trying to step into Meltano+Singer to get data out for me to manage in spreadsheets (my kingdom). I know I'm in for a hard ride, but I want to see how far I get. Well, I was just following the guide to get started, and I reached step 2 before getting stuck. 😄 It doesn't seem to be activating the virtual environment as expected.

PS C:\Users\Axel> python -m venv .venv
PS C:\Users\Axel> source .venv/bin/activate
source : The term 'source' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ source .venv/bin/activate
+ ~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (source:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

And since I don't know what I'm doing, I can't troubleshoot much. 😞 If someone can guide me a bit... Many thanks.

Hi @axel! I commend you trying and learning something so new to you 😄. Seems like you're on Windows and the way to activate a virtual environment there is to run the bat script

PS C:\Users\Axel>.venv/bin/activate.bat

Hey @axel welcome! You are in for a bit of a steep learning curve, but it will be worth it! Maybe an option for you - we are creating Meltano projects on the fly when you setup a data source in our platform (you get access to that public github repo by default). So this might be a way for you to get started, or even better if we do what you need - DM me / always happy to chat. Cheers, Aaron

Thanks for the help. I've followed @edgar_ramirez_mondragon recommendation and I'm now working in Ubuntu within WSL. I got stuck not far from there though. I keep getting python errors, and not even with some help from a friend I can't progress. 😅 Helpless.