How to install Python package from GitHub? [duplic

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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'

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In Nodejs, I can install packages from github like this

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

Answer 1

You need to use the proper git URL:

pip install git+git://github.com/jkbr/httpie.git

or

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

Also see the VCS Support section of the pip documentation.

Answer 2

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