# Getting Started

Installation:

- `pip3 install pycairo`

Installing Pycairo requires pkg-config and cairo including its headers. Here are some examples on how to install those for some platforms:

- Ubuntu/Debian: `sudo apt install libcairo2-dev pkg-config python3-dev`

- macOS/Homebrew: `brew install cairo pkg-config`

- Arch Linux: `sudo pacman -S cairo pkgconf`

- Fedora: `sudo dnf install cairo-devel pkg-config python3-devel`

- openSUSE: `sudo zypper install cairo-devel pkg-config python3-devel`

To verify that the installation works run the following Python code:

    import cairo