Installation

You can install Celery either via the Python Package Index (PyPI) or from source.

To install using pip,:

$ pip install -U Celery

To install using easy_install,:

$ easy_install -U Celery

Bundles

Celery also defines a group of bundles that can be used to install Celery and the dependencies for a given feature.

You can specify these in your requirements or on the pip comand-line by using brackets. Multiple bundles can be specified by separating them by commas.

$ pip install "celery[librabbitmq]"

$ pip install "celery[librabbitmq,redis,auth,msgpack]"

The following bundles are available:

Serializers

celery[auth]: for using the auth serializer.
celery[msgpack]: for using the msgpack serializer.
celery[yaml]: for using the yaml serializer.

Concurrency

celery[eventlet]: for using the eventlet pool.
celery[gevent]: for using the gevent pool.
celery[threads]: for using the thread pool.

Transports and Backends

celery[librabbitmq]: for using the librabbitmq C library.
celery[redis]: for using Redis as a message transport or as a result backend.
celery[mongodb]:for using MongoDB as a message transport (experimental), or as a result backend (supported).
celery[sqs]: for using Amazon SQS as a message transport (experimental).
celery[memcache]: for using memcached as a result backend.
celery[cassandra]: for using Apache Cassandra as a result backend.
celery[couchdb]: for using CouchDB as a message transport (experimental).
celery[couchbase]: for using CouchBase as a result backend.
celery[beanstalk]: for using Beanstalk as a message transport (experimental).
celery[zookeeper]: for using Zookeeper as a message transport.
celery[zeromq]: for using ZeroMQ as a message transport (experimental).
celery[sqlalchemy]: for using SQLAlchemy as a message transport (experimental), or as a result backend (supported).
celery[pyro]: for using the Pyro4 message transport (experimental).
celery[slmq]: for using the SoftLayer Message Queue transport (experimental).

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

The last command must be executed as a privileged user if you are not currently using a virtualenv.

Using the development version

With pip
The Celery development version also requires the development versions of kombu, amqp and billiard.

You can install the latest snapshot of these using the following pip commands:

$ pip install https://github.com/celery/celery/zipball/master#egg=celery
$ pip install https://github.com/celery/billiard/zipball/master#egg=billiard
$ pip install https://github.com/celery/py-amqp/zipball/master#egg=amqp
$ pip install https://github.com/celery/kombu/zipball/master#egg=kombu

With git
Please the Contributing section.