Installing Plone with the Unified Installer

The Unified Installer is a kit for installing Zope and Plone from source on most Unix-like systems, including Linux, BSD, OS X and Solaris. This tutorial introduces its use and options.

What is the Unified Installer? A brief introduction to the installer, the case for using it, its options and recent changes.
Root or User Install? The cases for and against installation as the root user.
To ZEO or Not to Zeo? The Unified Installer will install Zope to either run in a Client/Server or stand-alone configuration. Here are the merits of each.
Running the Unified Installer Preparing to run and running the Unified Installer
Creating New Instances The Unified Installer may be used to create additional Zope/Plone instances.
Command-Line Options Some less commonly used Unified Installer options that may still be useful to you.
Ubuntu / Debian Package Installation How to install required packages on Debian/Ubuntu style systems.
Platform Notes User-contributed notes on using the Unified Installer on particular platforms

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