## Installing from source

The preferred way to install mitmproxy - whether you're installing the latest release or from source - is to use [pip](http://www.pip-installer.org/). If you don't already have pip on your system, you can find installation instructions [here](http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html).

If you are looking for a more information on how to install mitmproxy directly from the master branch on GitHub, or are wanting to set up mitmproxy for developement purposes, see the <a href="https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/master/README.mkd#hacking">Hacking</a> section of the README on GitHub. 

<pre class="terminal">
$ sudo pip install mitmproxy
</pre>

If you also want to install the optional packages AMF, protobuf and CSS
content views, do this:

<pre class="terminal">
$ sudo pip install "mitmproxy[contentviews]"
</pre>


## OSX

The easiest way to get up and running on OSX is to download the pre-built
binary packages from [mitmproxy.org](http://mitmproxy.org). If you still want
to install using pip, there are a few things to keep in mind:

- If you're running a Python interpreter installed with homebrew (or similar),
you may have to install some dependencies by hand. 
- Make sure that XCode is installed from the App Store, and that the
command-line tools have been downloaded (XCode/Preferences/Downloads).

There are a few bits of customization you might want to do to make mitmproxy
comfortable to use on OSX. The default color scheme is optimized for a dark
background terminal, but you can select a palette for a light terminal
background with the --palette option. You can use the OSX <b>open</b> program
to create a simple and effective <b>~/.mailcap</b> file to view request and
response bodies:

<pre class="terminal">
application/*; /usr/bin/open -Wn %s
audio/*; /usr/bin/open -Wn %s
image/*; /usr/bin/open -Wn %s
video/*; /usr/bin/open -Wn %s
</pre>


## Ubuntu

Ubuntu comes with Python but we need to install pip, python-dev and several libraries.  This was tested on a fully patched installation of Ubuntu 14.04.

<pre class="terminal">
$ sudo apt-get python-pip python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

$ sudo pip install mitmproxy
</pre>


## Windows

mitmweb and mitmdump are the only parts of mitmproxy that work on Windows.

Install the latest version of Python 2 from the <a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/">Python website</a>.  The Windows MSI installer is fairly straight forward and even includes pip as long as you are installing a version of Python 2 after 2.7.9.  One option you should change during installation is "Add python.exe to Path".  This will make it easier to run Python.
<img src="@!urlTo('winpythoninstaller.jpg')!@"/>

Now log out of Windows and back in to finish having Python added to your PATH.

<pre class="terminal">
C:\> pip install mitmproxy
</pre>

From that point you just run mitmweb or mitmdump from the Command Prompt
 
<pre class="terminal">
C:\> mitmweb
</pre>
or
<pre class="terminal">
C:\> mitmdump
</pre>