.. _installation_guide:
Installation Guide
==================
Installing with PIP
-------------------
The easiest way to install **homely** is using ``pip``::
pip install homely --user
If your system doesn't have ``pip`` installed, you can follow these
`installation instructions for pip
`_.
You can use ``homely --version`` to check that you have the latest version
installed:
.. parsed-literal::
$ homely --version
homely |homely_version|
Python 2 or Python 3?
---------------------
I highly recommend installing **homely** using python3 since python3 is so much more feature-rich than python2, but if you *do* need to install under python2, check the :any:`python2` page for important notes.
If your system has python3 but not ``pip3``, you can get it by running ``python3 -m ensurepip --user`` or following the `installation instructions for pip `_.