Requirements Python 2.4, 2.5 or 2.6. Zope Interfaces 3.0.1 (http://zope.org/Products/ZopeInterface) - if you have ZopeX3 (at least version 3.0.0c1) installed that should work too. On Windows pywin32 is recommended (this is built in to ActivePython, so no need to reinstall if you use it instead of standard Python) http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018 The Windows IOCP reactor requires pywin32 build 205 or later. If you would like to use Trial's subunit reporter, then you will need to install Subunit 0.0.2 or later (https://launchpad.net/subunit). Installation * Debian and Ubuntu Packages are included in the main distribution. * FreeBSD, Gentoo Twisted is in their package repositories. * Win32 EXEs are available from http://twistedmatrix.com/ * Other As with other Python packages, the standard way of installing from source is: python setup.py install