Plone4 wants python 2.6, anyway people running python2.7 say it that works so … I’ll use python2.7.
I’m using Linux Mint 11 (Ubuntu 11).

Install python-dev package:

$ sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev

Then install EasyInstall: download the egg from “http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools” and then run it as if it were a shell script:

$ sudo sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg

Ok, so let’s use paster to create a Plone4 buildout:

$ paster create -t plone4_buildout

Run bootstrap.py:

$ sudo python bootstrap.py

Ok we’re ready, let’s run buildout:

$ ./bin/buildout

Now to start the application type:

$ bin/instance start

Done!