How to install Python package from GitHub?

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Colonel Panic picture Colonel Panic · Mar 7, 2013 · Viewed 290.4k times · Source

I want to use a new feature of httpie. This feature is in the github repo https://github.com/jkbr/httpie but not in the release on the python package index https://pypi.python.org/pypi/httpie

How can I install the httpie package from the github repo? I tried

pip install https://github.com/jkbr/httpie

But I got an error 'could not unpack'

In Nodejs, I can install packages from github like this

npm install git+https://github.com/substack/node-optimist.git

Answer

Martijn Pieters picture Martijn Pieters · Mar 7, 2013

You need to use the proper git URL:

pip install git+https://github.com/jkbr/httpie.git#egg=httpie

Also see the VCS Support section of the pip documentation.

Don’t forget to include the egg=<projectname> part to explicitly name the project; this way pip can track metadata for it without having to have run the setup.py script.

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