Get Started Clone the project git checkout new Create a virtual environment (virtualenv venv) on debian you can apt-get install python-virtualenv or get it on github here Source into the venv (source venv/bin/activate) Install the requirements (pip install Django dj-database-url) Create the dev database (python manage.py syncdb) create an admin account for yourself when it asks Load some test data (python manage.py loaddata test) Run the development server (python manage.py runserver)