# INSTALL / BUILD instructions for Apache Airflow This ia a generic installation method that requires a number of dependencies to be installed. Depending on your system you might need different prerequisites, but the following systems/prerequisites are known to work: Linux (Debian Buster and Linux Mint Tricia): sudo apt install build-essentials python3.6-dev python3.7-dev python-dev openssl \ sqlite sqlite-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev libmysqld-dev postgresq MacOS (Mojave/Catalina): brew install sqlite mysql postgresql # [required] fetch the tarball and untar the source move into the directory that was untarred. # [optional] run Apache RAT (release audit tool) to validate license headers # RAT docs here: https://creadur.apache.org/rat/. Requires Java and Apache Rat java -jar apache-rat.jar -E ./.rat-excludes -d . # [optional] Airflow pulls in quite a lot of dependencies in order # to connect to other services. You might want to test or run Airflow # from a virtual env to make sure those dependencies are separated # from your system wide versions python3 -m venv PATH_TO_YOUR_VENV source PATH_TO_YOUR_VENV/bin/activate NOTE!! On November 2020, new version of PIP (20.3) has been released with a new, 2020 resolver. This resolver does not yet work with Apache Airflow and might lead to errors in installation - depends on your choice of extras. In order to install Airflow you need to either downgrade pip to version 20.2.4 ``pip install --upgrade pip==20.2.4`` or, in case you use Pip 20.3, you need to add option ``--use-deprecated legacy-resolver`` to your pip install command. # [required] building and installing by pip (preferred) pip install . # or directly python setup.py install # You can also install recommended version of the dependencies by using # constraint-python.txt files as constraint file. This is needed in case # you have problems with installing the current requirements from PyPI. # There are different constraint files for different python versions. For example" pip install . \ --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-master/constraints-3.6.txt" By default `pip install` in Airflow 2.0 installs only the provider packages that are needed by the extras and install them as packages from PyPI rather than from local sources: pip install .[google,amazon] \ --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-master/constraints-3.6.txt" You can upgrade just airflow, without paying attention to provider's dependencies by using 'no-providers' constraint files. This allows you to keep installed provider packages. pip install . --upgrade \ --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-master/constraints-no-providers-3.6.txt" You can also install airflow in "editable mode" (with -e) flag and then provider packages are available directly from the sources (and the provider packages installed from PyPI are UNINSTALLED in order to avoid having providers in two places. And `provider.yaml` files are used to discover capabilities of the providers which are part of the airflow source code. You can read more about `provider.yaml` and community-managed providers in https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow-providers/index.html for developing custom providers and in ``CONTRIBUTING.rst`` for developing community maintained providers. This is useful if you want to develop providers: pip install -e . \ --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-master/constraints-3.6.txt" You can als skip installing provider packages from PyPI by setting INSTALL_PROVIDERS_FROM_SOURCE to "true". In this case Airflow will be installed in non-editable mode with all providers installed from the sources. Additionally `provider.yaml` files will also be copied to providers folders which will make the providers discoverable by Airflow even if they are not installed from packages in this case. INSTALL_PROVIDERS_FROM_SOURCES="true" pip install . \ --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-master/constraints-3.6.txt" Airflow can be installed with extras to install some additional features (for example 'async' or 'doc' or to install automatically providers and all dependencies needed by that provider: pip install .[async,google,amazon] \ --constraint "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/airflow/constraints-master/constraints-3.6.txt" The list of available extras: # START EXTRAS HERE airbyte, all, all_dbs, amazon, apache.atlas, apache.beam, apache.cassandra, apache.druid, apache.hdfs, apache.hive, apache.kylin, apache.livy, apache.pig, apache.pinot, apache.spark, apache.sqoop, apache.webhdfs, async, atlas, aws, azure, cassandra, celery, cgroups, cloudant, cncf.kubernetes, crypto, dask, databricks, datadog, devel, devel_all, devel_ci, devel_hadoop, dingding, discord, doc, docker, druid, elasticsearch, exasol, facebook, ftp, gcp, gcp_api, github_enterprise, google, google_auth, grpc, hashicorp, hdfs, hive, http, imap, jdbc, jenkins, jira, kerberos, kubernetes, ldap, microsoft.azure, microsoft.mssql, microsoft.winrm, mongo, mssql, mysql, neo4j, odbc, openfaas, opsgenie, oracle, pagerduty, papermill, password, pinot, plexus, postgres, presto, qds, qubole, rabbitmq, redis, s3, salesforce, samba, segment, sendgrid, sentry, sftp, singularity, slack, snowflake, spark, sqlite, ssh, statsd, tableau, telegram, trino, vertica, virtualenv, webhdfs, winrm, yandex, zendesk # END EXTRAS HERE # For installing Airflow in development environments - see CONTRIBUTING.rst