Installing hyde is as simple as running the following command:

pip install hyde

However, based on your choice and use of plugins you may need to install additional packages. The requirements for each plugin is outlined in the corresponding plugin documentation.

Dependencies

While your mileage may vary, we consider the following to be essential for generating a static website with hyde. These are a part of the requirements file and the above command will download and install all of them as part of hyde.

It is also recommended that you use virtualenv to separate the hyde environment from other python projects. Note that installing hyde using pip would install all of the below. However, if you’d like finer grained control over the packages, you can install these individually:

1. argparse: argparse is required if you are on python 2.6.
2. commando: commando is a wrapper on top of argparse to give better syntax and support for multi-command applications.
3. Jinja2: While hyde will support many more template languages in the future, currently, Jinja2 is wholly supported and recommended.
4. Markdown: While there are plans to add support for other markups (textile, restructured text, asciidoc etc..,), markdown is the one thats currently completely supported.
5. Pyyaml: Much of hyde’s configuration is done using yaml.
6. pygments: For syntax coloring.
7. Typogrify: Typogrify automatically fixes and enhances the typographical accuracy of your content. While this is not a technical requirement for hyde, it is absolutely essential to create good looking content.

The following commands can be used to install the dependencies for hyde individually:

pip install argparse
pip install commando
pip install jinja2
pip install markdown
pip install pyyaml
pip install pygments
pip install smartypants
pip install -e git://github.com/hyde/typogrify#egg=typogrify