Basic idea of what you need to do to install the app:

1) create mysql database.
2) use the "schema.sql" file to create the tables in the db.
3) go get a id token from amazon.com web services.
4) cp etc.py-dist etc.py
5) edit etc.py to match the db and amazon info
6) make sure you have python2.3 installed and python support for mysql
   (dbi api) and wxwindows 2.6.  on debian and ubuntu these are packages 	 
   python2.3-mysqldb and python-libwxgtk2.6

launch the app with ./infoshopkeeper


Here are some more detailed instructions, tested on 4/24 on Ubuntu 5.10:


as normal user:
---------------

#get the code from cvs

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.codecoop.org:/cvsroot/infoshopkeeper login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.codecoop.org:/cvsroot/infoshopkeeper checkout infoshopkeeper


as root:
--------

#you could use postgres or sqllite, but i've only tested mysql

apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

#create a database

mysql

mysql> create database infoshopkeeper;

mysql> grant all on infoshopkeeper.* to 'infoshopkeeper'@localhost identified by 
'infoshopkeeper';

#make sure you have the universe repositories enabled!

apt-get install python-wxgtk2.6

#a lot of the python stuff is easy to install if you use the cheese shop 

wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py

python2.4 ez_setup.py

easy_install -U SQLObject

easy_install -U Cheetah -or- apt-get install python2.4-cheetah 

easy_install -U CherryPy

back to normal user:
--------------------

cd infoshopkeeper;

# you'll need a schema in your db

mysql -u infoshopkeeper -p infoshopkeeper < schema.sql

# cherrypy.conf configures how the web backend works

# change the ip, port, the file system path

cp cherrypy.conf-dist cherrypy.conf 
 
nano cherrypy.conf 

# etc.py is the config file

cp etc.py-dist etc.py

nano etc.py

# plug in your db values, location of cherrypy.conf file, and tweak config here

# you'll need to get a license key from amazon web services, see the url in etc.py


# done! you can launch the gui with:

./infoshopkeeper

# and the back end web server with:

./server