# Installation guide

Before installing django-registration, you’ll need to have a copy of Django already installed. For information on obtaining and installing Django, consult the Django download page, which offers convenient packaged downloads and installation instructions.

The 2.2 release of django-registration supports Django 1.8, 1.9, and 1.10, on the following Python versions:

- Django 1.8 suports Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5.
- Django 1.9 supports Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5.
- Django 1.10 supports Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5.

It is expected that django-registration 2.2 will work without modification on Python 3.6 once it is released.

Important

Python 3.2

Although Django 1.8 supported Python 3.2 at the time of its release, the Python 3.2 series has reached end-of-life, and as a result support for Python 3.2 has been dropped from django-registration.

## Normal installation

The preferred method of installing django-registration is via `pip`, the standard Python package-installation tool. If you don’t have `pip`, instructions are available for how to obtain and install it. If you’re using Python 2.7.9 or later (for Python 2) or Python 3.4 or later (for Python 3), `pip` came bundled with your installation of Python.

Once you have `pip`, simply type:

    pip install django-registration

## Manual installation

It’s also possible to install django-registration manually. To do so, obtain the latest packaged version from the listing on the Python Package Index. Unpack the `.tar.gz` file, and run:

    python setup.py install

Once you’ve installed django-registration, you can verify successful installation by opening a Python interpreter and typing `import registration`.

If the installation was successful, you’ll simply get a fresh Python prompt. If you instead see an `ImportError`, check the configuration of your install tools and your Python import path to ensure django-registration installed into a location Python can import from.

## Installing from a source checkout

The development repository for django-registration is at <https://github.com/ubernostrum/django-registration>. Presuming you have git installed, you can obtain a copy of the repository by typing:

    git clone https://github.com/ubernostrum/django-registration.git

From there, you can use normal git commands to check out the specific revision you want, and install it using `python setup.py install`.

## Next steps

To get up and running quickly, check out the quick start guide. For full documentation, see the documentation index.