How to install Plone on Linux/BSD/Unix

It could seems hard to configure Plone, but it’s just a matter of time.

1. first of all download latest sable Unified Installer from the official page (currently it is the 4.2.1)
2. unpack it in a temp directory and choose between a standalone installation (as user) or a wide system (as root)
3. wide system is best for the production stage, so we go for standalone and launch in the temp directory ./install.sh standalone
4. the installer will proceed to create a full working environment for Plone 4 in the directory ~/Plone
5. in this phase you’ll manage to install missing/additional packages to complete the compilation
6. if we have a recent pyhton version installed (e.g. 2.6+) we can let Plone use it and we do not need to compile a new one
7. to check if you have installed python-dev and launch ./install.sh standalone –with-python=/path/to/Python-2.6
8. wait for the compiling!

if there were no errors you will have your Plone environment in ~/Plone ready to start!