Installing Python Projects

Author:The Fellowship of the Packaging Release:3.3 Date:February 14, 2012

Abstract

This document describes Packaging from the end-user’s point of view: it explains how to extend the functionality of a standard Python installation by building and installing third-party Python modules and applications.

This guide is split into a simple overview followed by a longer presentation of the pysetup script, the Python package management tool used to build, distribute, search for, install, remove and list Python distributions.

• 1. Installing Python projects: overview
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Standard build and install
  • 1.3. Alternate installation
  • 1.4. Custom installation
  • 1.5. Configuration files for Packaging
  • 1.6. Building extensions: tips and tricks
• 2. Pysetup Tutorial
  • 2.1. Getting started
  • 2.2. Finding out what’s installed
  • 2.3. Installing a distribution
  • 2.4. Retrieving metadata
  • 2.5. Removing a distribution
  • 2.6. Getting help
• 3. Pysetup Configuration
  • 3.1. Configuring indexes
• 4. Package Servers
  • 4.1. Serving distributions from Apache
  • 4.2. Serving distributions from a file system

See also

Distributing Python Projects

The manual for developers of Python projects who want to package and distribute them. This describes how to use packaging to make projects easily found and added to an existing Python installation.

packaging

A library reference for developers of packaging tools wanting to use standalone building blocks like version or metadata, or extend Packaging itself.