# Installation

## Use a Published Release

To install Questionary, simply run this command in your terminal of choice:

    $ pip install questionary

## Build from Source

Installing from source code is only necessary, if you want to make changes to the Questionary source code. Questionary is actively developed on GitHub.

You can either clone the public repository:

    $ git clone git@github.com:tmbo/questionary.git

Or, download the tarball:

    $ curl -OL https://github.com/tmbo/questionary/tarball/master

Note

If you are using windows, you can also download a zip instead:

    $ curl -OL https://github.com/tmbo/questionary/zipball/master

Questionary uses Poetry for packaging and dependency management. If you want to build Questionary from source, you must install Poetry first:

    $ curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python3

There are several other ways to install Poetry, as seen in the official guide.

To install Questionary and its dependencies in editable mode, execute

    $ make install