Installation¶
This part of the documentation covers the installation of Beaver. The first step to using any software package is getting it properly installed.
Requirements¶
- Python 2.6+
- Optional zeromq support: install libzmq (
brew install zmq
orapt-get install libzmq-dev
) and pyzmq (pip install pyzmq==2.1.11
)
Distribute & Pip¶
Installing Beaver is simple with pip:
$ pip install beaver
or, with easy_install:
$ easy_install beaver
But, you really shouldn’t do that.
Cheeseshop (PyPI) Mirror¶
If the Cheeseshop (a.k.a. PyPI) is down, you can also install Beaver from one of the mirrors. Crate.io is one of them:
$ pip install -i http://simple.crate.io/ beaver
Get the Code¶
Beaver is actively developed on GitHub, where the code is always available.
You can either clone the public repository:
git clone git://github.com/python-beaver/python-beaver.git
Download the tarball:
$ curl -OL https://github.com/python-beaver/python-beaver/tarball/master
Or, download the zipball:
$ curl -OL https://github.com/python-beaver/python-beaver/zipball/master
Once you have a copy of the source, you can embed it in your Python package, or install it into your site-packages easily:
$ python setup.py install