Smoon is the server part of smolt. This is a TurboGears (http://www.turbogears.org) project. It can be started by running the start-hardware.py script. to debug, run the debug-hardware script as: python -i debug-hardware.py ------------------------ Deployment / Development ------------------------ This assumes that you have a running MySQL server on localhost. You will need to execute the following commands at the command line from the "database" directory. Those create a MySQL smoon user (password = smoon) and grant it rights on the smoon database. $ mysql -p -u root > CREATE DATABASE smoon; > CREATE USER 'smoon'@'smoon' IDENTIFIED BY 'smoon'; > GRANT ALL ON smoon.* to 'smoon'@'localhost' ; > quit $ mysql -p -u smoon smoon < smolt.sql Then go to the smoon directory and edit sample-dev.cfg to your liking. Install python-turboflot TurboGears.noarch and MySQL-python : # yum install python-turboflot TurboGears.noarch MySQL-python Then launch smoon : $ python start-hardware.py sample-dev.cfg A smoon server should now be running at http://127.0.0.1:8080/ . ------------ Localization ------------ To do it, follow this link: http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/GenshiInternationalizationWithBabel