.. _requirements-and-installation:

Installation
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From PyPy with pip
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The quickest and easiest way to install RIPE Atlas Cousteau is to use ``pip``::

    $ pip install ripe-atlas-cousteau

From GitHub
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If you're feeling a little more daring and want to use whatever is on GitHub,
you can have pip install right from there::

    $ pip install git+https://github.com/RIPE-NCC/ripe-atlas-cousteau.git

.. _installation-from-tarball:

From a Tarball
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If for some reason you want to just download the source and install it manually,
you can always do that too.  Simply un-tar the file and run the following in the
same directory as ``setup.py``::

    $ python setup.py install