How to install Python package from GitHub?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1526...

Question links:
https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/httpie

Accepted answer links:
[VCS Support]: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/topics/vcs.../
[explicitly name the project]: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/cli/pip_in...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 563

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.

ANSWER 2

Score 136

To install Python package from github, you need to clone that repository.

git clone https://github.com/jkbr/httpie.git

Then just run the setup.py file from that directory,

sudo python setup.py install