# Installation

## Package manager

If you want the latest stable version of musicbrainzngs, the first place to check is your systems package manager. Being a relatively new library, you might not be able to find it packaged by your distribution and need to use one of the alternate installation methods.

## PyPI

Musicbrainzngs is available on the Python Package Index. This makes installing it with pip as easy as:

    pip install musicbrainzngs

## Git

If you want the latest code or even feel like contributing, the code is available on GitHub.

You can easily clone the code with git:

    git clone git://github.com/alastair/python-musicbrainzngs.git

Now you can start hacking on the code or install it system-wide:

    python setup.py install