You can install PiSi on your system with a single command. # ./setup.py install If you are on a Pardus system, you should delete /usr/lib/pardus/pisi when you are installing the SVN version PiSi requires piksemel XML processing library, the newest version bsd bindings called "bsddb3" and Pardus configuration manager COMAR in order to run. If you are upgrading from an old PiSi release you may have to run the following command as root: # pisi rebuild-db