.. _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 `_.