RPi.GPIO Installation

Raspbian Wheezy

The RPi.GPIO module is installed by default in Raspbian. To make sure that it is at the latest version:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio python3-rpi.gpio

To install the latest development version from the project source code library:

$ sudo apt-get install python-dev python3-dev
$ sudo apt-get install mercurial
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip python3-pip
$ sudo apt-get remove python-rpi.gpio python3-rpi.gpio
$ sudo pip install hg+http://hg.code.sf.net/p/raspberry-gpio-python/code#egg=RPi.GPIO
$ sudo pip-3.2 install hg+http://hg.code.sf.net/p/raspberry-gpio-python/code#egg=RPi.GPIO

To revert back to the default version in Raspbian:

$ sudo pip uninstall RPi.GPIO
$ sudo pip-3.2 uninstall RPi.GPIO
$ sudo apt-get install python-rpi.gpio python3-rpi.gpio

Other Distributions

It is recommended that you install RPi.GPIO using the pip utility as superuser (root):

# pip install RPi.GPIO