From a27d196e34c09a3222142f69e26fb1944f05d678 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phantom9869 <145986653+Phantom9869@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 15:01:20 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add Windows note for python3 command

On a standard Windows Python.org installation, python3 is not
available. Add a note to inform Windows users to use python or
the py launcher instead.

Signed-off-by: Phantom9869 <145986653+Phantom9869@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 docs/INSTALLATION.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/INSTALLATION.rst b/docs/INSTALLATION.rst
index 012f0878da..9bdb20d567 100644
--- a/docs/INSTALLATION.rst
+++ b/docs/INSTALLATION.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ All versions of ``python-tuf`` can be installed from
 `PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/tuf/>`_ with
 `pip <https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/>`_.
 
+.. note::
+
+   Windows users: replace ``python3`` with ``python`` or use the
+   ``py`` launcher (e.g. ``py -m pip install tuf``).
+
 ::
 
    python3 -m pip install tuf