These instructions should be followed with grain of salt. Take care to understand what is going on.
Starting out - For Ubuntu users - Installs important stuff
- sudo apt-get install curl sox mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient16-dev git-core apache2 libexpat1 ssl-cert unixodbc-dev libmyodbc phpmyadmin mercurial
- sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential python-mysqldb python-tz python-imaging
Starting out - For Mac OSX