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Install Python package from GitHub using PyCharm

I created a VirtualEnv in PyCharm to install my Python packages. I wanted to install this fork of the django project from GitHub.

https://github.com/django-nonrel/django

For packages available from PyPI I would normally use the built-in search tool in PyCharm, but I'm not sure how to correctly install it into the VirtualEnv within PyCharm from GitHub. Would anyone know how to do this?

Solution

  • Please see Gord Thompson's answer for an approach to get this working with Pycharm.

    Here's an alternative of how to get this to work without it:

    Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/django-nonrel/django.git my_folder

    The install it manually into your virtualenv:

    cd my_folder
python setup.py build
python setup.py install