# Installation

## Python Versions

stevedore is tested under Python 3.6 and 3.7.

## Basic Installation

stevedore should be installed into the same site-packages area where the application and extensions are installed (either a virtualenv or the global site-packages). You may need administrative privileges to do that. The easiest way to install it is using pip:

    $ pip install stevedore

or:

    $ sudo pip install stevedore

## Download

stevedore releases are hosted on PyPI and can be downloaded from: http://pypi.org/project/stevedore

## Source Code

The source is hosted on the OpenStack infrastructure: https://opendev.org/openstack/stevedore/

## Entry point inspector

To list entrypoints and registered plugins this tool can be also very useful: https://pypi.org/project/entry_point_inspector

## Reporting Bugs

Please report bugs through the launchpad project: https://launchpad.net/python-stevedore

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