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# Install

Install with your favorite package manager

## Latest Release

Pip:

    pip install kafka-python

Releases are also listed at https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python/releases

## Bleeding-Edge

    git clone https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
    pip install ./kafka-python

Setuptools:

    git clone https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
    easy_install ./kafka-python

Using setup.py directly:

    git clone https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
    cd kafka-python
    python setup.py install

## Optional Snappy install

### Install Development Libraries

Download and build Snappy from http://code.google.com/p/snappy/downloads/list

Ubuntu:

    apt-get install libsnappy-dev

OSX:

    brew install snappy

From Source:

    wget http://snappy.googlecode.com/files/snappy-1.0.5.tar.gz
    tar xzvf snappy-1.0.5.tar.gz
    cd snappy-1.0.5
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install

### Install Python Module

Install the python-snappy module

    pip install python-snappy

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