deb-python-kafka/docs/install.rst

Install

Install with your favorite package manager

Latest Release

Pip:

pip install kafka-python

Releases are also listed at https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python/releases

Bleeding-Edge

git clone https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
pip install ./kafka-python

Setuptools:

git clone https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
easy_install ./kafka-python

Using setup.py directly:

git clone https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
cd kafka-python
python setup.py install

Optional Snappy install

Install Development Libraries

Download and build Snappy from http://code.google.com/p/snappy/downloads/list

Ubuntu:

apt-get install libsnappy-dev

OSX:

brew install snappy

From Source:

wget http://snappy.googlecode.com/files/snappy-1.0.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf snappy-1.0.5.tar.gz
cd snappy-1.0.5
./configure
make
sudo make install

Install Python Module

Install the python-snappy module

pip install python-snappy