How to Install Python Package from Github? [Duplicate]

How to Install Python Package from Github? [Duplicate]

I want to use a new feature of httpie. This feature is in the github repo but not in the release on the python package index

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

pip install 

But I got an error 'could not unpack'


In Nodejs, I can install packages from github like this

npm install git+
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2 Answers

You need to use the proper git URL:

pip install git+

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

git clone 

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

sudo python setup.py install
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