If you don't already have easy_install available you'll want to download and run the ez_setup.py script:
$ curl -O http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py $ sudo python ez_setup.py -U setuptools
To install or upgrade to the latest released version of Gunicorn:
$ sudo easy_install -U gunicorn
You can install Gunicorn from source as simply as you would install any other Python package. Gunicorn uses setuptools which will automatically fetch all dependencies (including setuptools itself).
You can download a tarball of the latest sources from GitHub Downloads or fetch them with git:
$ git clone git://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn.git
$ python setup.py install
If you've cloned the git repository, its highly recommended that you use the develop command which will allow you to use Gunicorn from the source directory. This will allow you to keep up to date with development on GitHub as well as make changes to the source:
$ python setup.py develop
If you want to handle sleepy application you will need to install Eventlet or Gevent.
To install eventlet:
$ easy_install -U eventlet
Replace eventlet with gevent if you want to use the gevent arbiter.
You can now launch gunicorn with Eventlet or Gevent arbiter, see usage for more information.
Note
If eventlet or gevent fails to install for you, its most likely due to an out of date libev library. You'll need to download and install a newer version for either of those to modules to work properly.
If you use Ubuntu karmic, you can update your system with packages from our PPA by adding ppa:bchesneau/gunicorn to your system's Software Sources.
Or this PPA can be added to your system manually by copying the lines below and adding them to your system's software sources:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bchesneau/gunicorn/ubuntu karmic main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bchesneau/gunicorn/ubuntu karmic main
Signing key:
1024R/15E5EB06
Fingerprint:
49AEEDFF5CDCD82CEA8AB4DABC981A8115E5EB06