.. _install:

Installation
============

This part of the documentation covers installation of docker-startup.

Distribute & Pip
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Installation is simple with `pip <http://www.pip-installer.org/>`_. ::

    $ pip install docker-startup 

or, with `easy_install <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools>`_ ::

    $ easy_install docker-startup


Get the code
------------

docker-startup is actively maintained on bitbucket, where the code is
`always available <https://bitbucket.org/dpaw/docker-startup>`_.

You can clone the repository: ::

    hg clone https://bitbucket.org/dpaw/docker-startup

Once you have a copy of the source, you can embed it in your Python package,
or install it to your site-packages easily::

    $ python setup.py install

You can run the docker-startup's test suite with::

    $ python setup.py test
