Chapter 2.1. Installing TurboGears and SQLite

Before you can start writing cool new TurboGears applications, you have to install it and all of its component pieces on your computer. The good news is that thanks to Phillip Eby, Python Eggs, and Easy Install, this is now amazingly easy to do for anybody running Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X.

With Philip Eby’s Easy Install package, installing TurboGears is now as easy as this:

  1. Install Python 2.4 or 2.5, if not already installed. You certainly can use TurboGears with 2.3, but unless you have a compelling reason to do that, your experience is going to be significantly better if you use a newer Python release. If you do choose to use Python 2.3, you must do some things differently than we do here ...

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