Before starting with the installation, you should make sure, that all required libraries and programs are available on your system. tel currently depends on: * Python at least 2.4 - http://www.python.org Users of debian systems can install these with: apt-get install python2.4 Users of gentoo systems: emerge dev-lang/python If you have completed installing all dependencies, you can install tel by running the following command: python setup.py install This will install tel under /usr. If you want to change the installation prefix, use the --prefix option: python setup.py install --prefix /usr/local A complete list of command line options of the installation script is available through python setup.py --help.