Installation

This part of the documentation covers the installation of pyimagediet. The first step to using any software package is getting it properly installed.

Distribute & Pip

Installing pyimagediet is simple with pip, just run this in your terminal:

$ pip install pyimagediet

or, with easy_install:

$ easy_install pyimagediet

But, you really shouldn’t do that.

Get the Code

pyimagediet is developed on GitHub, where the code is always available.

You can either clone the public repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/samastur/pyimagediet.git

Download the tarball:

$ curl -OL https://github.com/samastur/pyimagediet/tarball/master

Or, download the zipball:

$ curl -OL https://github.com/samastur/pyimagediet/zipball/master

Once you have a copy of the source, you can embed it in your Python package, or install it into your site-packages easily:

$ python setup.py install

Installing “dependencies”

pyimagediet does not have a hard dependency on any external optimisation tool, but it also does not do anything useful without any. You do need to install at least one for each image format you want to handle.

You can find a list of some in External tools needed for shrinking.