You need repoze.who to get the examples working, can be gotten through easy_install easy_install "repoze.who=1.0.16" !! 2.0 or newer are missing the form plugin which is used in some instances Or from the PyPi site if you prefer to do it that way. Likewise for pyasn1. You should get the latest version, which is right now 1.0.18 . You also need xmlsec, which you can find here: http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/ You may also need: mako memcached python-memcache Apart from that a normal python setup.py install will install the package.