Installation ------------ pyOpenSSL uses distutils. Use setup.py to install it in the usual way: $ python setup.py install --user Or use pip: $ pip install --user . You can, of course, do $ python setup.py --help or $ pip install --help to find out more about how to use these tools. Documentation ------------- The documentation is written in reStructuredText and build using Sphinx. To build the text, html, postscript or dvi forms of the documentation, this is what you do: cd doc # To make the text-only documentation: make text # To make the dvi form: make dvi