Advanced Installation Options¶
Installing from the Source Code¶
The source code for the BigchainDB Python Driver can be downloaded from the Github repo. You can either clone the public repository:
git clone git://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb-driver
Or download the tarball:
curl -OL https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb-driver/tarball/master
Once you have a copy of the source code, you can install it by going to the directory containing setup.py
and doing:
python setup.py install
Installing latest master with pip¶
To work with the latest BigchainDB (server) master branch:
$ pip install --process-dependency-links git+https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb-driver.git
Then connect to some BigchainDB node which is running BigchainDB server master
.