The main web application
The Cockerel system is simple to install provided you have the following requirements satisfied:
For information on installing these see their respective sites.
I strongly recommend using the virtualenv project for managing the python namespace. Assuming you have a project python install with setuptools, you can create a new virtualenv around the project directory to install into. This can be done with:
git clone git://github.com/dcolish/Cockerel.git
Then
virtualenv some_env_path . some_env_path/bin/activate python setup.py develop
The Cockerel webpage will be at http://localhost:5000 by default