1. Use the pip tool to install virtualenv http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/ 2. Create a virtual environment in an empty directory: virtualenv -p 3. cd into the directory you just created a virtual environment in, and clone our GitHub repo 4. Activate the virtual environment source bin/activate 5. cd into the repository root directory, install all dependencies using pip pip -r requirements.txt 6. All set!