This seemed to work for me (ubuntu/breezy)... cd /path/to/svn/turbogears svn up . python ez_setup.py setuptools python ez_setup.py http://www.turbogears.org/download/eggs/PasteScript-0.4dev_r4192-py2.4.egg python ez_setup.py http://www.turbogears.org/download/eggs/SQLObject-0.7.1dev_r1457-py2.4.egg python setup.py develop
The links being from the "Download packages" section at... http://www.turbogears.org/download/index.html --markc

