I fixed my install problem - I upgraded my machine to FC4 :-) I like Mepis, but I am more familiar with Fedora, and have had a lot of issues with Mepis/Debian and getting up to date packages.
2 things you might want to consider: 1. Installing TurboGears on a fresh FC4 does not work out of the box - there are a few python libraries that are in FC4 (Python 2.4.1) that need to be removed for your install script to work, specifically "elementtree" and something like "cElement.so". 2. OSX, as usuall, is a pain - I had troubles getting Python 2.4 installed and working. There are even scripts online that "fix" the Python 2.4 installs for OSX 10.4, but they do not seem to work. Love your product (I never did Python until yesterday, and had a basic web app running very quickly), btw - can you recommend any decent open source dev environments w/debugger for Python/TurboGears? I use Eclipse, I believe there are plugins. Thanks to everyone here for their help
