the irc group on freenode has some groupies there who help. I have it installed, dont bother with debian, use a clean install of ubuntu

here are some notes to get started from a clean install (replace your own vars)

install Ubuntu 810 apt-get update apt-get install subversion adduser --home /home/bleu bleu su bleu svn co http://svn.scrapy.org/scrapy mv scrapy-trunk scrapy ls scrapy branches tags trunk sudo root as root apt-get install python-twisted apt-get install nano su bleu source ~/.bashrc pico ~/.bashrc #add this to end of file: export PYTHONPATH=/home/bleu/scrapy/trunk

python >>> import scrapy quit() scrapy/trunk/scrapy/bin/scrapy-admin.py startproject myproject