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I have an old client's webpage that I've done in Plone2.5, and recently he wanted to add some custom functionality to his site, that I just can't get by installing a Plone product, especially since the Plone2.5 products are very scarce nowadays.

I'm using ubuntu and I wanted to have a buildout of Plone2.5, so I started looking on Google for articles about getting Plone installed with buildout.

The best guide that I've found came from: http://webteam.medsci.ox.ac.uk/integrators-developers/setting-up-a-buildout-version-of-plone-2.5.5

This was a fine guide except the fact that it was missing some eggs that Plone needed, and it was dependent on ZopeSkel.

Added features or changes from the ZopeSkel plone2.5_buildout

The only thing that I've added to this is the PIL package which Plone needs and I've further pinned all of the other packages that are needed for a small Plone2.5 instance, because you never know when the packages are going to be updated and those changes might pull newer dependencies that are not compatible with this buildout.

You can check it out at my Bitbucket account, use it, fork it, hack it... make it however you like, just use it if you want a Plone2.5 buildout rather than searching for other articles on how to install it, because some of them are missing some information, and they might pull newer versions of Zope that are not compatible with Plone2.5:

Plone2.5 Buildout