Instructions for installing and running AnkiServer: 1. First, you need to install "virtualenv". If your system has easy_install, this is just a matter of: $ easy_install virtualenv If your system doesn't have easy_install, I recommend getting it! 2. Next, you need to create a Python environment for running AnkiServer and install some of the dependencies we need there: $ virtualenv AnkiServer.env $ AnkiServer.env/bin/easy_install webob PasteDeploy PasteScript sqlalchemy simplejson 3. Download and install libanki. You can find the latest release of Anki here: http://code.google.com/p/anki/downloads/list Look for a *.tgz file with a Summary of "Anki Source". At the time of this writing that is anki-2.0.11.tgz. Download this file and extract. Then either: a. Run the 'make install', or b. Copy the entire directory to /usr/share/anki 4. Make the egg info files (so paster can see our app): $ AnkiServer.env/bin/python setup.py egg_info 5. Copy the example.ini to production.ini and edit for your needs. 6. Then we can run AnkiServer like so: $ AnkiServer.env/bin/paster serve production.ini