Installing Ubuntu Lucid

Install git, and some core dependencies

sudo apt-get install git-core openssl libssl-dev build-essential

Nodejs

I always build from source via Installation

Mongo

sudo apt-get install mongodb

NPM (doesn't require sudo if node installed as above into ~/local)

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Calipso

npm install calipso -g

This will install calipso in global mode, which will ensure that the command line client is installed (calipso), and all core dependencies are met. On a slow PC (e.g. an Amazon micro instance) this can take some time as much of it will be compiled (expresso / jscoverage particularly).

If you intend to be working with Calipso, it is a good idea to install expresso globally (e.g. npm install expresso -g), to avoid recompilation.

Once successful, you can complete the final steps:

calipso site ExampleSite
cd ExampleSite
calipso server

Now browse to your server, http://localhost:3000, the default username / password is admin / password.