Conda Installing upgrading directly from github

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Can I install upgrade packages from GitHub using conda   For example  with pip I can do   pip install git git   github com scrappy scrappy master   to install scrappy directly from the master branch in GitHub  Can I do something equivalent with conda   If this is not possible  would it make any sense to install pip with conda and manage such local installations with pip

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conda doesn t support this directly because it installs from binaries  whereas git install would be from source  conda build does support recipes that are built from git  On the other hand  if all you want to do is keep up-to-date with the latest and greatest of a package  using pip inside of Anaconda is just fine  or alternately  use setup py develop against a git clone

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There s better support for this now through conda-env   You can  for example  now do   name  sample env channels  dependencies     - requests    - bokeh gt  0 10 0    - pip       -  --editable git https   github com pythonforfacebook facebook-sdk git 8c0d34291aaafec00e02eaa71cc2a242790a0fcc egg facebook sdk-master    It s still calling pip under the covers  but you can now unify your conda and pip package specifications in a single environment yml file   If you wanted to update your root environment with this file  you would need to save this to a file  for example  environment yml   then run the command  conda env update -f environment yml   It s more likely that you would want to create a new environment   conda env create -f environment yml  changed as supposed in the comments

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I found a reference to this in condas issues  The following should now work     name  sample env channels  dependencies     - requests    - bokeh gt  0 10 0    - pip       - git https   github com pythonforfacebook facebook-sdk git

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The answers are outdated  You simply have to conda install pip and git  Then you can use pip normally    Activate your conda environment source activate myenv conda install git pip  pip install git git   github com scrappy scrappy master

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