["python","pip"]
How to install Python package from GitHub?

I want to use a new feature of httpie. This feature is in the github repo https://github.com/jkbr/httpie but not in the release on the python package index https://pypi.python.org/pypi/httpie How can I install the httpie package from the github repo? I tried pip install https://github.com/jkbr/httpie But I got an error 'could not unpack' In Nodejs, I can install packages from github like this npm install git+https://github.com/substack/node-optimist.git
You need to use the proper git URL: pip install git+https://github.com/jkbr/httpie.git#egg=httpie Also see the VCS Support section of the pip documentation. Don’t forget to include the egg=<projectname> part to explicitly name the project; this way pip can track metadata for it without having to have run the setup.py script.