# Installation

At the command line:

    $ easy_install snimpy

Or, if you have virtualenvwrapper installed:

    $ mkvirtualenv snimpy
    $ pip install snimpy

Snimpy requires libsmi, a library to access SMI MIB information. You need to install both the library and the development headers. If Snimpy complains to not find `smi.h`, you can help by specifying where this file is located by exporting the appropriate environment variable:

    $ export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/local/include

On Debian/Ubuntu, you can install libsmi with:

    $ sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libsmi2-dev snmp-mibs-downloader

On RedHat and similar, you can use:

    $ sudo yum install libffi-devel libsmi-devel

On OS X, if you are using homebrew, you can use:

    $ brew install libffi
    $ brew install libsmi

On Debian and Ubuntu, Snimpy is also available as a package you can install with:

    $ sudo apt-get install snimpy