Installing Circus

Use pip:

$ pip install circus

Or download the archive on PyPI, extract and install it manually with:

$ python setup.py install

If you want to try out Circus, see the Examples.

More on Requirements

Circus uses:

• Python 2.6, 2.7 (3.x needs to be tested)
• zeromq >= 2.10

And on Python side:

• pyzmq 2.2.0
• iowait 0.1
• psutil 0.4.1

You can install all the py dependencies with the pip-requirements.txt file we provide manually, or just install Circus and have the latest versions of those libraries pulled for you:

$ pip install -r pip-requirements.txt

If you want to run the Web console you will need more things:

• Mako 0.7.0
• MarkupSafe 0.15
• bottle 0.10.9
• anyjson 0.3.1
• gevent 0.13.7
• gevent-socketio 0.3.5-beta
• gevent-websocket 0.3.6
• greenlet 0.3.4
• beaker 1.6.3
• http://github.com/tarekziade/gevent-zeromq

Those can be installed with:

$ pip install -r web-requirements.txt