Installing netaddr

netaddr is available in various packaged and non-packaged forms :

  • source code repository access
  • source release packages (tarball and zip formats)
  • Python eggs
  • Windows install packages

Linux distribution specific :

  • Ubuntu and Debian (.deb packages)
  • Fedora (.rpm packages)

Please see these Linux projects for availability and installation details.

You can also build your own RPM packages, using bdist_rpm with setup.py available in the source tarball.

Locating the software

netaddr is available directly from the public subversion source code repository.

Details on how to check out the source code can be found here :

Official milestone releases can be found here :

Source Release Packages

Download the latest release tarball/zip file and extract it to a temporary location or check out the source from the code hosting site into a local working copy directory.

Run the setup file in the root directory like this:

python setup.py install

This automatically places the required files in the lib/site-packages directory of the Python version you used to run the setup script, may be part of a virtualenv or similar.

Python Eggs

You can build and install eggs with netaddr using the setup_egg.py file provided in the source distribution.

All the usual commands are supported e.g.:

python setup_egg.py develop
python setup_egg.py bdist_egg
...

This requires that you install distribute or setuptools which is not part of the Python standard library.

See the following URL for details :-

Warning

setuptools is now very long in the tooth and full of bugs! Just use distribute, or pip instead.

Download and install the latest easy_install script and run the following command

easy_install netaddr

This will go to the Python Package Index and automatically find the appropriate version of netaddr for your Python setup.

Alternatively, you can use pip instead of easy_install.

Just download the latest version of pip from PyPI found here - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip and run the following command

pip install netaddr

Windows Install Packages

On Windows, it is usually more convenient to use the binary install packages. Please note that you may want to download a source zip file as well if you want local access to the API documentation and unit tests as these are not distributed along with the code in the Windows install packages.

Security Tip

Warning

while efforts are made to ensure that the Windows executables produced are virus free, they cannot be guaranteed to always be 100% free of possible nasties. Use them solely at your own risk!

If you are either

  1. paranoid, or
  2. properly and correctly security conscious

either run your own virus checking software against the setup executable before installing it or just download the .zip file and install netaddr using Python’s setup.py script to mitigate any potential problems.

Final Words

Always be sure you verify your downloads against the checksums on the code hosting site’s download page!

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