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Download TortoiseSVN from http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads. I used This version. This is a ‘next->accept->next->install’ and will not be covered.

REBOOT (Its windows shell extension so I guess it wants a reboot.)

Use TortoiseSVN to download paimei to C:\paimei

*** NOTE: Windows7 and Windows Vista users may have permission issues if it is installed in C:\Program Files or \Users.  Make sure you choose a folder just off the root of your hard drive for best results.

For funzies and to make sure we don’t have future issues caused by svn setting file permissions, lets remove read-only/hidden permissions recursively.  Make sure you have “Show hidden files/folders” turned on in XP as well, it can be easy to forget if you just created a base VM image for this project (and you should have!).

That’s it!  You have the most up-to-date PaiMei source from Google code.  The bad news… install requirements for PaiMei do not match the original install documentation so there is going to some work involved in getting everything up and running.  The order of installation doesn’t really matter for many of the prerequisites but Python 2.5 and Mysql 5.0 should be installed first as they are required by many of the other prerequisites.

Lets get started Installing Python 2.5 and MySQL 5.0.89 …

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