Installing CherryPy

Prerequisites

• All you need is a working version of Python-2.3 or later on your computer.

Installation steps

• Download the latest CherryPy release from the repository.
• Unzip/untar the files.
• Go to the directory created by the file extraction.
• Type "python setup.py install" to install the CherryPy module
• To run your first sample website, go to cherrypy/tutorial/ and type "python tut01_helloworld.py", and you'll have a running website on port 8080.
• Open your favorite browser and point it to http://localhost:8080 to see your first CherryPy-served page :-)

Now, you should try running some of the other tutorials found in the tutorial directory and look at their source code to understand how to develop a website with CherryPy.

Debian installation

apt-get install python2.3 python2.3-dev
python setup.py install