Hi everyone,
We’ve recently made some enhancements to the SDV Enterprise installation process. The new functionality is part of the August release (version 0.33.0, released Aug 19, 2025) as part of our regularly-scheduled updates.
To see the updated instructions, go to our website and click on the Installation page.
Summary of changes
We’ve introduced a lightweight package called SDV Installer that helps you manage your installation. SDV Installer is one central location to manage your installation:
- Check that your system meets the technical requirements
- Verify your SDV Enterprise credentials
- List which packages you have access to
- Download and install all the packages in one go
Start by getting the SDV Installer:
> pip install sdv-installer --upgrade
Then use the SDV Installer to manage everything else. Under-the-hood, the SDV Installer checks your credentials with our server, and makes the pip install commands for all the packages you have access to.
> sdv-installer install --upgrade
Username: <email>
License Key: ********************************
Installing SDV Enterprise:
sdv-enterprise (version 0.33.0) - Installed!
Installing Bundles:
bundle-cag - Installed!
bundle-xsynthesizers - Installed!
Success! All packages have been installed. You are ready to use SDV Enterprise.
FAQs
Why did you make these installation changes? We made these changes to streamline the installation. As the SDV Enterprise ecosystem continues to grow, there may be many different packages for you to download and install. For example, we already offer 4 additional bundles with optional features on top of the base SDV Enterprise.
The previous installation commands required you to remember all the packages and list them yourself. We created the SDV Installer to manage this for you. SDV Installer is also designed to be your one, central location for checking requirements, and seeing which packages you have access to.
# SDV Installer checks whether your environment can support SDV Enterprise
> sdv-installer check-requirements
Operating system: macOS
OS Version: 14
...
Result: Passed
Your system meets the technical requirements for SDV Enterprise.
# SDV Installer looks up all the packages you have access to
> sdv-installer list-packages
Username: <email>
License Key: ********************************
SDV Enterprise:
sdv-enterprise
SDV Bundles:
bundle-cag
bundle-xsynthesizers
What if I want to do an offline installation? Offline installations are supported. You can use the SDV Installer to download the packages to a local folder, and then complete the installation offline from that local folder. Details instructions are available on this page.
Can I go back to the older instructions? Yes. The SDV Installer is a lightweight package that manages the installation for you, but you are free to directly make the installation commands as before. (See older instructions here.)
We are hoping that all SDV Enterprise customers can use the SDV Installer for ease-of-use. So if there are technical issues or other concerns about the SDV Installer, we ask that you please start a new Discourse thread to give us feedback.
Resources
For more information, please see our Installation page, and if you run into any issues, please start a new thread here on Discourse with the details of your issue.
We appreciate your understanding as we update our systems and to provide you with the best installation experience. Thank you!