# Installation

This part of the documentation covers the installation of SQLAlchemy-Utils.

## Supported platforms

SQLAlchemy-Utils has been tested against the following Python platforms.

- cPython 2.6
- cPython 2.7
- cPython 3.3

## Installing an official release

You can install the most recent official SQLAlchemy-Utils version using pip:

    pip install sqlalchemy-utils

## Installing the development version

To install the latest version of SQLAlchemy-Utils, you need first obtain a copy of the source. You can do that by cloning the git repository:

    git clone git://github.com/kvesteri/sqlalchemy-utils.git

Then you can install the source distribution using the `setup.py` script:

    cd sqlalchemy-utils
    python setup.py install

## Checking the installation

To check that SQLAlchemy-Utils has been properly installed, type `python` from your shell. Then at the Python prompt, try to import SQLAlchemy-Utils, and check the installed version:

    >>> import sqlalchemy_utils
    >>> sqlalchemy_utils.__version__
    0.30.12