Following are instructions for installing Transifex with virtualenv on a platform CentOS.

Install Transifex with virtualenv on CentOS

Setup virtualenv

Install virtualenv and setup an instance inside the env itself.:

export DEVEL=/home/devel
# Enable EPEL and install necessary stuff
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
yum install python-setuptools

# Replace 2.4 with your version of python
mkdir -p $DEVEL/env/default/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
export PYTHONPATH=$DEVEL/env/default/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
easy_install --prefix $DEVEL/env/default virtualenv
easy_install --prefix $DEVEL/env/default virtualenvwrapper

Initialize the virtualenv:

source ~/.bashrc
cd $DEVEL/env
python $DEVEL/env/default/bin/virtualenv default

Switch to virtualenv

To use virtualenv, add the following to your ~/.bashrc file, replacing /home/devel with your choice of $DEVEL setting above:

# Python Virtualenv stuff
export WORKON_HOME="/home/devel/env/"
export PATH="$PATH:$WORKON_HOME/default/bin/"
source $WORKON_HOME/default/bin/virtualenvwrapper_bashrc

Finally, any time you'd like to use the virtual env:

workon default

Install dependencies

Something like the following can be used to install application dependencies.:

(workon default)
easy_install Django Markdown python-openid django-authopenid django-pagination polib
easy_install -f http://transifex.org/files/eggs/ contact_form tagging

# If using python prior to 2.5 you don't have built-in  sqlite support
yum install python-sqlite2

mkdir -p $DEVEL/sources
cd $DEVEL/sources

Test

To test your settings:

hg clone http://code.transifex.org/mainline
cd mainline
python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py shell