Installing / Upgrading
======================
.. highlight:: bash

**PyMongo** is in the `Python Package Index
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymongo/>`_.

Microsoft Windows
-----------------

We recommend using the `MS Windows installers` available from the `Python
Package Index <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymongo/>`_.

Installing with pip
-------------------

To use `pip <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip>`_
to install pymongo on platforms other than Windows::

  $ pip install pymongo

To get a specific version of pymongo::

  $ pip install pymongo==2.6.3

To upgrade using pip::

  $ pip install --upgrade pymongo

.. note::
  pip does not support installing python packages in .egg format. If you would
  like to install PyMongo from a .egg provided on pypi use easy_install
  instead.

Installing with easy_install
----------------------------

To use ``easy_install`` from
`setuptools <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools>`_ do::

  $ easy_install pymongo

To upgrade do::

  $ easy_install -U pymongo

Dependencies for installing C Extensions on Unix
------------------------------------------------

MongoDB, Inc. does not provide statically linked binary packages for Unix
flavors other than OSX. To build the optional C extensions you must have the
GNU C compiler (gcc) installed. Depending on your flavor of Unix (or Linux
distribution) you may also need a python development package that provides
the necessary header files for your version of Python. The package name may
vary from distro to distro.

Debian and Ubuntu users should issue the following command::

  $ sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev

Users of Red Hat based distributions (RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux, Oracle Linux,
Fedora, etc.) should issue the following command::

  $ sudo yum install gcc python-devel

OSX
---

MongoDB, Inc. provides PyMongo in .egg format for Apple provided Python
versions on OSX 10.7 and newer (usually python 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7). If you want
to install PyMongo for other Python versions (or from source) you will have to
install the following to build the C extensions:

**Snow Leopard (10.6)** - Xcode 3 with 'UNIX Development Support'.

**Snow Leopard Xcode 4**: The Python versions shipped with OSX 10.6.x
are universal binaries. They support i386, PPC, and (in the case of python2.6)
x86_64. Xcode 4 removed support for PPC, causing the distutils version shipped
with Apple's builds of Python to fail to build the C extensions if you have
Xcode 4 installed. There is a workaround::

  # For Apple-supplied Python2.6 (installed at /usr/bin/python2.6) and
  # some builds from python.org
  $ env ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' python -m easy_install pymongo

  # For 32-bit-only Python (/usr/bin/python2.5) and some builds
  # from python.org
  $ env ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386' python -m easy_install pymongo

See `http://bugs.python.org/issue11623 <http://bugs.python.org/issue11623>`_
for a more detailed explanation.

**Lion (10.7) and newer** - PyMongo's C extensions can be built against
versions of Python 2.7 >= 2.7.4 or Python 3.x >= 3.2.4 downloaded from
python.org. In all cases Xcode must be installed with 'UNIX Development
Support'.

**Xcode 5.1**: Starting with version 5.1 the version of clang that ships with
Xcode throws an error when it encounters compiler flags it doesn't recognize.
This may cause C extension builds to fail with an error similar to::

  clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]

There are workarounds::

  # Apple specified workaround for Xcode 5.1
  # easy_install
  $ ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future easy_install pymongo
  # or pip
  $ ARCHFLAGS=-Wno-error=unused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future pip install pymongo

  # Alternative workaround using CFLAGS
  # easy_install
  $ CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments easy_install pymongo
  # or pip
  $ CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments pip install pymongo

Installing from source
----------------------

If you'd rather install directly from the source (i.e. to stay on the
bleeding edge), install the C extension dependencies then check out the
latest source from github and install the driver from the resulting tree::

  $ git clone git://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver.git pymongo
  $ cd pymongo/
  $ python setup.py install


Installing from source on Windows
.................................

.. note::

  MongoDB, Inc. provides pre-built exe installers for 32-bit and 64-bit
  Windows. We recommend that users install those packages (`available from
  pypi <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymongo/>`_).

If you want to install PyMongo with C extensions from source the following
directions apply to both CPython and ActiveState's ActivePython:

64-bit Windows
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For Python 3.3 and newer install Visual Studio 2010. For Python 3.2 and older
install Visual Studio 2008. In either case you must use the full version as
Visual C++ Express does not provide 64-bit compilers. Make sure that you check
the "x64 Compilers and Tools" option under Visual C++.

32-bit Windows
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For Python 3.3 and newer install Visual C++ 2010 Express.

For Python 2.6 through 3.2 install Visual C++ 2008 Express SP1.

For Python 2.4 or 2.5 you must install
`MingW32 <http://www.mingw.org/wiki/InstallationHOWTOforMinGW>`_ then run the
following command to install::

  python setup.py build -c mingw32 install

.. _install-no-c:

Installing Without C Extensions
-------------------------------

By default, the driver attempts to build and install optional C
extensions (used for increasing performance) when it is installed. If
any extension fails to build the driver will be installed anyway but a
warning will be printed.

If you wish to install PyMongo without the C extensions, even if the
extensions build properly, it can be done using a command line option to
*setup.py*::

  $ python setup.py --no_ext install

Building PyMongo egg Packages
-----------------------------

Some organizations do not allow compilers and other build tools on production
systems. To install PyMongo on these systems with C extensions you may need to
build custom egg packages. Make sure that you have installed the dependencies
listed above for your operating system then run the following command in the
PyMongo source directory::

  $ python setup.py bdist_egg

The egg package can be found in the dist/ subdirectory. The file name will
resemble “pymongo-2.6.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg” but may have a different name
depending on your platform and the version of python you use to compile.

.. warning::

  These “binary distributions,” will only work on systems that resemble the
  environment on which you built the package. In other words, ensure that
  operating systems and versions of Python and architecture (i.e. “32” or “64”
  bit) match.

Copy this file to the target system and issue the following command to install the
package::

  $ sudo easy_install pymongo-2.6.3-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg

Installing a release candidate
------------------------------

MongoDB, Inc. may occasionally tag a release candidate for testing by the
community before final release. These releases will not be uploaded to pypi
but can be found on the
`github tags page <https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/tags>`_.
They can be installed by passing the full URL for the tag to pip::

  $ pip install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/2.7rc1.tar.gz

or easy_install::

  $ easy_install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/2.7rc1.tar.gz

