-$ <code class="userinput">git clone https://github.com/curoverse/arvados.git</code>
-$ <code class="userinput">cd arvados/sdk/python</code>
-$ <code class="userinput">sudo python setup.py install</code>
+$ apt-get install git build-essential python3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl1.0-dev
+</pre>
+
+If your version of @pip@ is 1.4 or newer, the @pip install@ command might give an error: "Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement arvados-python-client". If this happens, try @pip install --pre arvados-python-client@.
+
+h3. Option 2: Install from a distribution package
+
+This installation method is recommended to make the CLI tools available system-wide. It can coexist with the installation method described in option 1, above.
+
+First, "add the appropriate package repository for your distribution":{{ site.baseurl }}/install/install-manual-prerequisites.html#repos.
+
+On Red Hat-based systems:
+
+<notextile>
+<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">sudo yum install python-arvados-python-client</code>
+</code></pre>
+</notextile>
+
+On Debian-based systems:
+
+<notextile>
+<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">sudo apt-get install python-arvados-python-client</code>
+</code></pre>
+</notextile>
+
+h3. Test installation
+
+If the SDK is installed and your @ARVADOS_API_HOST@ and @ARVADOS_API_TOKEN@ environment variables are set up correctly (see "api-tokens":{{site.baseurl}}/user/reference/api-tokens.html for details), @import arvados@ should produce no errors.
+
+If you installed with pip (option 1, above):
+
+<notextile>
+<pre>~$ <code class="userinput">python</code>
+Python 2.7.4 (default, Sep 26 2013, 03:20:26)
+[GCC 4.7.3] on linux2
+Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
+>>> <code class="userinput">import arvados</code>
+>>> <code class="userinput">arvados.api('v1')</code>
+<apiclient.discovery.Resource object at 0x233bb50>