Configuring so that pip install can work from github

You need the whole python package, with a setup.py file in it.

A package named foo would be:

foo # the installable package
├── foo
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── bar.py
└── setup.py

And install from github like:

$ pip install git+ssh://git@github.com/myuser/foo.git
or
$ pip install git+https://github.com/myuser/foo.git@v123
or
$ pip install git+https://github.com/myuser/foo.git@newbranch

More info at https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/#vcs-support

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I had similar issue when I had to install from github repo, but did not want to install git , etc.

The simple way to do it is using zip archive of the package. Add /zipball/master to the repo URL:

    $ pip install https://github.com/hmarr/django-debug-toolbar-mongo/zipball/master
Downloading/unpacking https://github.com/hmarr/django-debug-toolbar-mongo/zipball/master
  Downloading master
  Running setup.py egg_info for package from https://github.com/hmarr/django-debug-toolbar-mongo/zipball/master
Installing collected packages: django-debug-toolbar-mongo
  Running setup.py install for django-debug-toolbar-mongo
Successfully installed django-debug-toolbar-mongo
Cleaning up...

This way you will make pip work with github source repositories.

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If you want to use requirements.txt file, you will need git and something like the entry below to anonymously fetch the master branch in your requirements.txt.

For regular install:

git+git://github.com/celery/django-celery.git

For "editable" install:

-e git://github.com/celery/django-celery.git#egg=django-celery

Editable mode downloads the project's source code into ./src in the current directory. It allows pip freeze to output the correct github location of the package.

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Clone target repository same way like you cloning any other project:

git clone git@github.com:myuser/foo.git

Then install it in develop mode:

cd foo
pip install -e .

You can change anything you wan't and every code using foo package will use modified code.

There 2 benefits ot this solution:

You can install package in your home projects directory. Package includes .git dir, so it's regular Git repository. You can push to your fork right away.

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Here is the simple solution

With git

pip install git+https://github.com/jkbr/httpie.git

Without git

pip install https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/tarball/master

or

pip install https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/zipball/master  

or

pip install https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/archive/master.zip

Note: You need a python package with the setup.py file in it.

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you can try this way in Colab

!git clone https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers.git
!pip install -e /content/sentence-transformers
import sentence_transformers

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Below format could be use to install python libraries via pip from GitHub.

pip install <LibName>@git+ssh://git@github.com/<username>/<LibName>#egg<LibName>

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Tested Optimized Ubuntu Solution using the terminal command:

Step 1: In a selected directory clone the git repo.

Example:

$ git clone https://github.com/httpie/httpie.git

Step 2: select/change path to the directory, to the cloned folder

$ cd ClonedFolderName

Step 3: Enter following command to install that package

ColnedFolderName(directory Name) $ pip install ./

pip install ./ is command to enter in cloned directory name

Note: Make sure setup.py is inside cloned repo. (which is by default in it)

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