# Stem Docs

## Download

Signed releases and instructions for both Python 2.x and 3.x. You can easily install from its tarball (`sha256 81d43a7c668ba9d7bc1103b2e7a911e9d148294b373d27a59ae8da79ef7a3e2f`) (sig) or with pip…

    % sudo easy_install pip
    % sudo pip install stem

As of OSX 10.8 the platform bundles Python 2.7 by default. This makes installation easy…

    % sudo easy_install pip
    % sudo pip install stem

Packages by Dererk for Debian, including python-stem (for Python 2.x) and python3-stem (for Python 3.x).

    % sudo apt-get install python-stem

Package derived from Debian for Ubuntu.

    % sudo apt-get install python-stem

Packages maintained by Juan for Fedora using dnf or yum. These include python-stem (for Python 2.x), python3-stem (for Python 3.x), and python-stem-doc (this website).

    % sudo dnf install python-stem

Package by Anthony Basile for Gentoo.

    % sudo emerge stem

Package by Sjon for Arch Linux.

    % pacman -S python-stem

| Package by Markus for Slackware.

Port by Carlo for FreeBSD.

    % pkg install security/py-stem

Port by pascal for OpenBSD.

    % pkg_add py3-stem

Port by Riastradh for NetBSD.

    % pkg_add py37-stem

For those wanting to live on the bleeding edge or contribute to Stem, Stem’s git repository can be fetched with…

    % git clone https://git.torproject.org/stem.git