To setup a local instance of oxdata: bzr branch http://code.0xdb.org/oxdata oxdata cd oxdata virtualenv . pip -E . install -r requirements.txt you need python, bazaar, pip and virtualenv: apt-get install python-setuptools bzr east_install pip pip install virtualenv also it uses system python moduels, so make sure you have ipython, dbmodule(psycopg2, python-mysqldb,..) installed via apt-get/pip/easy_install in your system path. Install rabbitmq and carrot: sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server sudo rabbitmqctl add_user oxdata ox sudo rabbitmqctl add_vhost /oxdata sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p /oxdata oxdata ".*" ".*" ".*" Deploy: adduser --disabled-password --disabled-login --home /srv/oxdata/ oxdata