Install¶
Install with your favorite package manager
Latest Release¶
Pip:
pip install kafka-python
Releases are also listed at https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python/releases
Bleeding-Edge¶
git clone https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
pip install ./kafka-python
Setuptools:
git clone https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
easy_install ./kafka-python
Using setup.py directly:
git clone https://github.com/mumrah/kafka-python
cd kafka-python
python setup.py install
Optional Snappy install¶
Install Development Libraries¶
Download and build Snappy from http://code.google.com/p/snappy/downloads/list
Ubuntu:
apt-get install libsnappy-dev
OSX:
brew install snappy
From Source:
wget http://snappy.googlecode.com/files/snappy-1.0.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf snappy-1.0.5.tar.gz
cd snappy-1.0.5
./configure
make
sudo make install