To setup a local instance of 0xdb: bzr branch http://code.0xdb.org/oxdb oxdb cd oxdb 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 oxdb password sudo rabbitmqctl add_vhost /oxdb sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p /oxdb oxdb "^oxdb-.*" ".*" ".*" update BROKER_* settings in local_settings.py: Development: we are using django, http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ communication between webserver and background tasks is done via rabbitmq http://github.com/ask/carrot/ for more info on the lib used to communicate