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Installing MongoEngine
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To use MongoEngine, you will need to download `MongoDB <http://mongodb.com/>`_
and ensure it is running in an accessible location. You will also need
`PyMongo <http://api.mongodb.org/python>`_ to use MongoEngine, but if you
install MongoEngine using setuptools, then the dependencies will be handled for
you.

MongoEngine is available on PyPI, so you can use :program:`pip`:

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    $ python -m pip install mongoengine

Alternatively, if you don't have setuptools installed, `download it from PyPi
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mongoengine/>`_ and run

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    $ python setup.py install

To use the bleeding-edge version of MongoEngine, you can get the source from
`GitHub <http://github.com/mongoengine/mongoengine/>`_ and install it as above:

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    $ git clone git://github.com/mongoengine/mongoengine
    $ cd mongoengine
    $ python setup.py install