Install Python Modules via GitHub Sep 17th, 2011 | Comments pip is a nice replacement for easy_install. And you can install Python modules from GitHub (or any git repo) with pip. Here is an example: $ sudo pip install -e git://github.com/joet3ch/foursquare-python.git#egg=foursquare Obtaining foursquare from git+git://github.com/joet3ch/foursquare-python.git#egg=foursquare Cloning git://github.com/joet3ch/foursquare-python.git to ./src/foursquare Running setup.py egg_info for package foursquare Installing collected packages: foursquare Running setup.py develop for foursquare Creating /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/foursquare.egg-link (link to .) Adding foursquare 0.1 to easy-install.pth file Installed /home/ubuntu/src/foursquare Successfully installed foursquare Cleaning up... $