I want to use a new feature of httpie. This feature is in the github repo https://github.com/jkbr/httpie but not in the release on the python package index https://pypi.python.org/pypi/httpie
How can I install the httpie package from the github repo? I tried
pip install https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
But I got an error ‘could not unpack’
In Nodejs, I can install packages from github like this
npm install git+https://github.com/substack/node-optimist.git
Answers:
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Method 1
You need to use the proper git URL:
pip install git+https://github.com/jkbr/httpie.git#egg=httpie
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.
Method 2
To install Python package from github, you need to clone that repository.
git clone https://github.com/jkbr/httpie.git
Then just run the setup.py file from that directory,
sudo python setup.py install
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