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title: Installation
description: Installing hyperglass
---

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## Automatic installation

If your system runs on:

- Ubuntu/Debian Linux
- ~~CentOS/Red Had Linux~~

You should be able to proceed with the automatic installation:

```bash
curl https://install.hyperglass.dev | sudo bash
```

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  **Piping to bash**
  <br /> You should be _very_ worried when someone asks you to do what I just did. Downloading a bash
  script from the internet and piping it to `bash` with root privileges is a terrible idea, unless you
  fully trust the source. Please don't trust me - go [look at the code](https://github.com/thatmattlove/hyperglass/blob/v1.0.0/install.sh)
  and determine for your self if it's safe to execute. If you feel it's not, please proceed with the
  manual installation (and [tell me why](https://github.com/thatmattlove/hyperglass/issues), so I can
  fix it).
</Callout>

## Manual Installation

### System Dependencies

#### Python

hyperglass is written in Python 3 and requires Python version **3.9** as a minimum dependency.

If you're confident upgrading your system's version of Python won't break your system (many Linux operating systems rely heavily on Python for package management and other system functions), you can install Python 3.9:

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```bash
sudo apt install -y python3-dev python3-pip
```

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Documentation for CentOS is still in-progress. However, it's been determined that these dependencies _may_ also be required, depending on the version of CentOS:

```bash
sudo yum install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel openjpeg2-devel zlib-devel \
    freetype-devel lcms2-devel libwebp-devel tcl-devel tk-devel \
    harfbuzz-devel fribidi-devel libraqm-devel libimagequant-devel \
    libxcb-devel ncurses-devel
```

Until further testing with CentOS can be done, you should install the above dependencies _before_ installing Python 3. You may have to uninstall and re-install Python 3 if these dependencies weren't already installed.

You can install python from the CentOS 7 repository:

```bash
sudo yum install python3-devel python3-pip
```

But you can also use the [SCL repository](https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-python36/)

```bash
sudo yum install centos-release-scl
sudo yum install rh-python36
```

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### Install hyperglass

Now that system dependencies are installed, you can install hyperglass.

```bash
pip3 install hyperglass
```
