Third-party libraries are stored here. Currently, Shapely is the only one we're using which isn't available through package managers. Shapely should be downloaded and extracted: wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/S/Shapely/Shapely-1.0.14.tar.gz tar -xvzf Shapely-1.0.14.tar.gz mv Shapely-1.0.14 Shapely rm Shapely-1.0.14.tar.gz This will probably be handled by the makefile.