There is more than one way to install assist, here we present two options.
The easiest way to install ASSIsT is to use pip. If you wish to perform a global installation and you have admin rights then do
sudo pip install assist
or to install in some directory under your user account
pip install --user assist
From the command line do the following (where x.y is the version number):
wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/a/assist/assist-x.y.tar.gz
tar xvzf assist-x.y.tar.gz
cd assist-x.y/
sudo python3 setup.py install
The last command can be replaced by python3 setup.py install --user. See PyPI for all available versions.