These instructions are based on you having an Ubuntu Edgy install, and that you want to run Python 2.4.x/ Zope 2.9.5 / Plone 2.5.

However, they also in theory support Dapper, and Python 2.3.5 / Zope 2.86 / Plone 2.1.

In general, things in italics are things you should type at a terminal prompt.

If you are running Dapper, you can change your etc/apt/sources.list to point to the Edgy.
You can do this by modifying your /etc/apt/source.list to include the following.
However this may irreparably damage your system by udpating dependencies you depend on.
So do at your own risk.

 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted

 deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted

 deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe multiverse

 deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe multiverse 

Now run sudo apt-get update, to update your sources and then sudo apt-get upgrade

Moving on, we are going to try to get a bunch of things with apt-get.

sudo apt-get install gcc python-gdal postgresql-8.1-postgis libgd2-xpm libfreetype6-dev \

libgd2-xpm-dev bison libcurl3 libcurl3-dev python-dev libtiff4-dev postgresql-server-dev-8.1 \

msttcorefonts libgdal1-1.3.1-dev g++ subversion python-elementtree python-simplejson \

python-imaging python-psycopg2 python-egenix-mxdatetime python-setuptools

Next, download (via firefox, or wget): Geos 2.2.3, mapserver 4.8.4, and swig 1.3.27.

wget http://geos.refractions.net/geos-2.2.3.tar.bz2

wget http://cvs.gis.umn.edu/dist/mapserver-4.8.4.tar.gz

wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/swig/swig-1.3.27.tar.gz 

bzcat geos-2.2.3.tar.bz2 | tar -x

tar -xzvf mapserver-4.8.4.tar.gz

tar -xzvf swig-1.3.27.tar.gz

Unarchive these to a folder of your choosing.

First, install GEOS, by going to the geos folder and running ./configure, make, and then sudo make install.

Then put the GEOS libraries and include files where PCL will be a be able to find them:

sudo cp -afr /usr/local/lib/*geos* /usr/lib/
sudo cp -afr /usr/local/include/*geos* /usr/include

Next, install swig, by going to swig and running ./configure, make, and then sudo make install

Ensure you are defaulting to the correct version of swig by running swig -version and seeing it is 1.3.27.
If not, you will need to substitute  '/usr/local/bin/swig' instead of just 'swig' in a few lines from now,

Next, go to the mapserver folder, and run:

./configure --with-tiff --with-jpeg --with-png --with-freetype --with-postgis \

--with-zlib --with-threads --with-proj --with-gdal --with-wcs --with-ogr \

--with-wmsclient --with-wfsclient

After configuring, run:

make
cd mapscript/python
swig -modern -python -o mapscript_wrap.c ../mapscript.i   
      [*or substitute the correct path for SWIG, as mentioned above]
sudo python setup.py install 

Next, let's download and install PCL.

svn co http://svn.gispython.org/gispy/PCL/trunk PCL

cd PCL/PCL-Core
sudo python setup.py build

sudo python setup.py install

Go to PCL-Mapserver and modify  setup.py to point to your mapserver source tree (e.g., /home/josh/mapserver-4.8.4).

cd ../PCL-Mapserver
sudo python setup.py build

sudo python setup.py install

Go to PCL-GDAL and find out what version of GDAL libraries you have with gdal-config.
Then  and modify tsetup.py to change libraries=['gdal'] to your version of gdal (e.g.,  libraries=['gdal1.3.1']).

cd ../PCL-GDAL
gdal-config --libs
   ...
      (look at the output of gdal-config and modify tsetup.py accordingly)
   ...
sudo python setup.py build

sudo python setup.py install

Moving on, let's download and install Quadtree and owslib

svn co http://icon.stoa.org/svn/pleiades/Quadtree/trunk Quadtree

cd Quadtree

sudo python setup.py build

sudo python setup.py install 

cd ..
sudo easy_install OWSLib

install zope / plone, ZCO and PrimaGIS and atcolorpickerwidget

You can do this install whatever way you want.  However, this documentation was tested by using the following zope/plone install:

svn co http://svn.gispython.org/zope/ZCO/branches/pcl-0.11-compatibility ZCO

svn co http://svn.gispython.org/zope/PrimaGIS/trunk PrimaGIS
wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/plone/Plone-2.5.1-final.tar.gz

wget http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.5/Zope-2.9.5-final.tgz

wget http://sterngasse.at/sterngasse/downloads/opensource/ATColorPickerWidget-0.1.1.tgz

ZOPE: .

./configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.4
make

sudo make install

/opt/Zope-2.9/bin/mkzopeinstance.py

/home/josh/z295

• copy or move the folders in the  Plone-2.5.1  to z295/Products
• move ZCO, PrimaGIS, and ATColorPickerWidget to z295/Products
• Start Zope:
  

z95/bin/runzope

Add a Plone site
Go to Plone site and install ZCO and PrimaGIS

Download the PrimaGIS data file, and extract to a location readable by your user that runs Zope (eg /home/josh/data)

Go to the ZMI and root of the plone site and edit the properties of portal_gis so the fonts points to your fonts.txt from the data file you extracted and your temp file points to /tmp

Under portal_gis contents modify the world_borders, and ensure it points to the world_borders.ovf from the data file you extracted

In the plone site, create the demo

http://localhost:80/Portal/createPrimaGISDemo