Source Tarball ============== First unpark source tarball: # tar xzvf archmage-0.1.9.tar.gz change directory: # cd archmage-0.1.9 to install arCHMage run following command: # python setup.py install Debian / Ubuntu =============== You can use prepackaged version from archive: # apt-get install archmage if you want to use it with apache: # apt-get install libapache-mod-python or to use it with apache2: # apt-get install libapache2-mod-python To have ability to dump HTML data from CHM file as plain text: # apt-get install lynx