Installing NLTK — NLTK 2.0 documentation

Installing NLTK — NLTK 2.0 documentation

Mac/Unix¶

1. Open Finder>Applications>Utilities>Terminal and type python -V to find out what version of Python is installed
2. Install Setuptools: Download the corresponding version of Setuptools from
   http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools (scroll to the bottom, and pick the filename that contains the right version number and which has the extension .egg). Install it by typing sudo sh Downloads/setuptools-...egg, giving the location of the downloaded file.
3. Install Pip: run sudo easy_install pip
4. Install Numpy (optional): run sudo pip install -U numpy
5. Install PyYAML and NLTK: run sudo pip install -U pyyaml nltk
6. Test installation: run python then type import nltk