Dulwich releases are published on pypi, and pip is probably the easiest way to install it if your distribution doesn't ship it.
By default, Dulwich' setup.py will attempt to build and install the optional C extensions. The reason for this is that they significantly improve the performance since some low-level operations that are executed often are much slower in CPython.
If you don't want to install the C bindings, specify the --pure argument to setup.py:
$ pip install dulwich --global-option="--pure"
Note that you can also specify --global-option in a requirements.txt file, e.g. like this:
dulwich --global-option=--pure
The main Git repository for Dulwich lives at https://github.com/dulwich/dulwich:
$ git clone https://github.com/dulwich/dulwich dulwich
By default, Dulwich' setup.py will attempt to build and install the optional C extensions. The reason for this is that they significantly improve the performance since some low-level operations that are executed often are much slower in CPython.
To install Dulwich without building the C extensions, run:
$ python setup.py --pure install
If you're running a recent version of Debian or Ubuntu, you can install a nightly snapshot of Dulwich built by the Debian Janitor. See the instructions for details, or run:
echo deb "[arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-janitor.gpg]" \
https://janitor.debian/net/ fresh-snapshots main | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fresh-snapshots.list
sudo curl -o /usr/share/keyrings/debian-janitor.gpg https://janitor.debian.net/pgp_keys
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -t fresh-snapshots python3-dulwich