Installing Mezzenine on CentOS Install: python python-devel libpng libpng-devel jpeg jpeg-devel freetype freetype-devel gcc Create Virtualenv virtualenv verenv Activate Virtualenv source verenv/bin/activate Install Mezzanine using Pip pip install mezzanine Troubleshooting: Oftentimes, you will get a huge error on installing mezzanine. If it is a gcc error, it is likely related to PIL, the python imaging library. Check you have installed everything