Downloading and Installing PyPy

Download a pre-built PyPy

The quickest way to start using PyPy is to download a prebuilt binary for your OS and architecture. You can either use the most recent release or one of our development nightly build. Please note that the nightly builds are not guaranteed to be as stable as official releases, use them at your own risk.

Installing PyPy

PyPy is ready to be executed as soon as you unpack the tarball or the zip file, with no need to install it in any specific location:

$ tar xf pypy-2.1.tar.bz2
$ ./pypy-2.1/bin/pypy
Python 2.7.3 (480845e6b1dd, Jul 31 2013, 11:05:31)
[PyPy 2.1.0 with GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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If you want to make PyPy available system-wide, you can put a symlink to the pypy executable in /usr/local/bin. It is important to put a symlink and not move the binary there, else PyPy would not be able to find its library.

If you want to install 3rd party libraries, the most convenient way is to install pip (unless you want to install virtualenv as explained below; then you can directly use pip inside virtualenvs):

$ curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
$ ./pypy-2.1/bin/pypy get-pip.py
$ ./pypy-2.1/bin/pip install pygments  # for example

Third party libraries will be installed in pypy-2.1/site-packages, and the scripts in pypy-2.1/bin.

Installing using virtualenv

It is often convenient to run pypy inside a virtualenv. To do this you need a recent version of virtualenv – 1.6.1 or greater. You can then install PyPy both from a precompiled tarball or from a mercurial checkout:

# from a tarball
$ virtualenv -p /opt/pypy-c-jit-41718-3fb486695f20-linux/bin/pypy my-pypy-env

# from the mercurial checkout
$ virtualenv -p /path/to/pypy/pypy/translator/goal/pypy-c my-pypy-env

Note that bin/python is now a symlink to bin/pypy.

Building PyPy yourself

If you’re interested in getting more involved, or doing something different with PyPy, consult the build instructions.