.. _dev-building-extension: Building and installing PyWavelets ================================== Installing from source code --------------------------- Go to https://github.com/PyWavelets/pywt GitHub project page, fork and clone the repository or use the upstream repository to get the source code:: git clone https://github.com/PyWavelets/pywt.git PyWavelets Activate your Python virtual environment, go to the cloned source directory and type the following commands to build and install the package:: python setup.py build python setup.py install To verify the installation run the following command:: python setup.py test To build docs:: cd doc make html Installing a development version -------------------------------- You can also install directly from the source repository:: pip install -e git+https://github.com/PyWavelets/pywt.git#egg=PyWavelets or:: pip install PyWavelets==dev Installing a regular release from PyPi -------------------------------------- A regular release can be installed with pip or easy_install:: pip install PyWavelets