You can install Celery either via the Python Package Index (PyPI) or from source. To install using `pip`,:: $ pip install Celery To install using `easy_install`,:: $ easy_install Celery Downloading and installing from source -------------------------------------- Download the latest version of `celery` from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/celery/ You can install it by doing the following,:: $ tar xvfz celery-0.0.0.tar.gz $ cd celery-0.0.0 $ python setup.py build # python setup.py install # as root Using the development version ------------------------------ You can clone the repository by doing the following:: $ git clone https://github.com/celery/celery