bookex is tested to work under Python 2.6+ and Python 3.3+ (using the same codebase thanks to an embedded copy of six).

The required dependencies to build the software is virtualenv >= 1.10 and django >= 1.5

For running the examples Postgresql >= 9.3.2 is required

This configuration matches the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release from April 2010.

This package uses distutils, which is the default way of installing python modules. To install in your home directory, use:

python setup.py install --user

To install for all users on Unix/Linux:

sudo python setup.py install