This were the steps involved in the installation of TurboGears 0.9 in a workstation with Windows 2000, WITHOUT an SVN client.
1. Install Python: (If you already have Python, skip this step) The Python version available at the time of writing this entry was 2.4.2 and you can download it from http://www.python.org/download/, execute the installer and follow instructions. 2. Add Python to PATH: Go to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables and add or edit the PATH variable to have ";C:\Python24;C:\Python24\Scripts". (If you installed Python to a directory other than C:\Python24, make sure you substitute the correct directory.) 3. Download TurboGears 0.9: Go to http://www.opensource4you.com, search for the link "turbogears/trunk_YYYYMMDD.tgz", for example, today, this link is "turbogears/trunk_20060205.tgz" and download it. 4. Extract TurboGears 0.9: Extract the contents of the file we've just download to C:\, that would let us with the contents of the file at C:\trunk 5. Download ez_setup (easy_install?): From: http://turbogears.com/download/ez_setup.py, save it in C:\. 6. Now Proceed with the Installation: Open up a command console. Make sure that you're at the directory where you've downloaded ez_setup.py and execute the following command: C:\>ez_setup.py C:\>easy_install -f http://peak.telecommunity.com/snapshots/ RuleDispatch Now, go to the directory where you extracted the contents of the file trac_YYYYMMDD.tgz C:\>cd trunk C:\trunk>cd thirdparty C:\trunk\thirdparty>easy_install cherrypy C:\trunk\thirdparty>easy_install kid C:\trunk\thirdparty>easy_install paste C:\trunk\thirdparty>easy_install sqlobject C:\trunk\thirdparty>cd .. C:\trunk>setup.py install Given that you're already at the command console, execute the following command: C:\>tg-admin (This command must print the following to screen) TurboGears 0.9a0 command line interface Usage: C:\Python24\Scripts\tg-admin-script.py [command] [options] Available commands: i18n Manage i18n data quickstart Create a new TurboGears project shell Start a Python prompt with your database available sql Run the SQLObject manager toolbox Launch the TurboGears Toolbox update Update an existing turbogears project Thats all for now, you can make a test project with 'tg-admin quickstart', for more info, go to www.turbogears.org Optionally, you could install pysqlite from www.pysqlite.org Parcially based in: http://www.twistedrails.org/blog/2005/11/13/my-turbogears-development-environment/ http://turbogears.com/download/windows.html http://turbogears.com/community/contributing.html
