parsedatetime uses a standard setup.py install method: python setup.py install This will install parsedatetime into your Python's site-packages location and make it available for import'ing Python 3.+ is required now for parsedatetime 1.+ parsedatetime is a pure Python module so it does not require any compiler build step. parsedatetime does not depend on any external library/module but will use the following if available: PyICU (which depends on ICU) Python 2.5 NOTE parsedatetime's setup.py uses Setuptools ez_setup.py and as such will attempt to contact the Python Package Index site to see if a new version of Setuptools is required (or to download if you don't have it installed.)