pecan/docs/source/installation.rst

Installation

Stable Version

We recommend installing Pecan with pip but you can also try with easy_install and virtualenv. Creating a spot in your environment where Pecan can be isolated from other packages is best practice.

To get started with an environment for Pecan, create a new virtual environment:

virtualenv pecan-env
cd pecan-env 
source bin/activate

The above commands create a virtual environment and activate it. Those actions will encapsulate any dependency installations for the framework, making it easier to debug problems if needed.

Next, let's install Pecan:

pip install pecan 

After a lot of output, you should have Pecan successfully installed.

Development (Unstable) Version

If you want to run the development version of Pecan you will need to install git and clone the repo from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/dreamhost/pecan.git

If your virtual environment is still activated, call setup.py to install the development version:

cd pecan
python setup.py develop

...alternatively, you can also install from GitHub directly with pip:

pip install -e git://github.com/dreamhost/pecan.git#egg=pecan