# Programatically install extensions
**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/programatically-install-extensions/19241
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** extensions-manager, python
**Created:** [August 18, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/programatically-install-extensions/19241 "2021-08-18T01:21:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Srijeet\_Chatterjee](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Srijeet_Chatterjee)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/programatically-install-extensions/19241/1 "2021-08-18T01:21:21Z")
Hello everyone,
I am really new to slicer (just a couple of weeks) and a novice programmer. My difficulty is to understand whether it is possible to load the slicer extensions without setting the additional module path manually / via any script. I would prefer to use simple python style (preferably pip) to install an extension. Alternatively, can setting a path in the SlicerLauncerSettings.ini for Python path work? I tried that approach however, I don’t get see the extension in the catalog. Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated! Thank you 🙂
---
### Author:  [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 2:40am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/programatically-install-extensions/19241/2 "2021-08-18T02:40:49Z")
You may want to look at this approach
>