github python project

1How to install Python package from GitHub?
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3I 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
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5How can I install the httpie package from the github repo? I tried
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7pip install https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
8But I got an error 'could not unpack'
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10In Nodejs, I can install packages from github like this
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12npm install git+https://github.com/substack/node-optimist.git
13Mar 2013 - Colonel Panic
14You need to use the proper git URL:
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16pip install git+https://github.com/jkbr/httpie.git#egg=httpie
17Also see the VCS Support section of the pip documentation.
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19Don’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.
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21Mar 2013 - Martijn Pieters
22To install Python package from github, you need to clone that repository.
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24git clone https://github.com/jkbr/httpie.git
25Then just run the setup.py file from that directory,
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27sudo python setup.py install