You can also install straight from a github tarballs: pip install "https://github.com/mitsuhiko/click/tarball/master#egg=click" https://github.com/mitsuhiko/cl

You can also install straight from a github tarballs: pip install "https://github.com/mitsuhiko/click/tarball/master#egg=click" https://github.com/mitsuhiko/click/tarball/master#egg=click" to pin a specific revision: pip install "https://github.com/mitsuhiko/click/tarball/5b7b7296fabc5d47d4ffd179be52492095e36f30#egg=click" https://github.com/mitsuhiko/click/tarball/5b7b7296fabc5d47d... (btw, it seems bad practice to add such a link as a dependency in your setup.py... usually you'd do it for temporary shallow forks, but otherwise I think it'd be better to also upload your shallow fork on pypi ...I guess you can just remove it from pypi if it won't be needed anymore)