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# Building and installing PyWavelets

## Installing from source code

Go to https://github.com/nigma/pywt GitHub project page, fork and clone the repository or use the upstream repository to get the source code:

    git clone https://github.com/nigma/pywt.git PyWavelets

Activate your Python virtual environment, go to the cloned source directory and type the following commands to build and install the package:

    python setup.py build
    python setup.py install

To verify the installation run the following command:

    python setup.py test

To build docs:

    cd doc
    make html

## Installing a development version

You can also install directly from the source repository:

    pip install -e git+https://github.com/nigma/pywt.git#egg=PyWavelets

or:

    pip install PyWavelets==dev

## Installing a regular release from PyPi

A regular release can be installed with pip or easy_install:

    pip install PyWavelets

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