Here are my notes for installing Zope and Plone from source in Ubuntu. I took this notes installing on 7.10 (Gutsy) but should work without problems for earlier Ubuntu versions, and for other Linux platforms
-1- install libraries needed for build (build-essential) and Zope
sudo apt-get install build-essential python2.4-dev python-lxml python-elementtree python-imaging
-2- download zope 2.10.5 and plone 3.0.4
wget https://launchpad.net/plone/3.0/3.0.4/+download/Plone-3.0.4.tar.gz wget http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.5/Zope-2.10.5-final.tgz
