how to install glastopf on centos 6 in a couple of minutes, no hassle

Edited on 04'th of March 2013 to reflect latest glastopf changes.
 
If you're wondering WTF is glastopf, well -> that's the bugger !
Some words before we begin:
Installing glastopf on Centos 6.3 32bit/64bit can be a pain especially if you break your already in place python setup. That's because glastopf needs 2.7 :) cute :>
First python version 2.7 needs to be installed without breaking the default 2.6 install (this would mess up yum and other tools that depend on python 2.6) *you want to stay away from that.
Ok, so how you set your OS up is up to you. you can get iso's, burn em and install in a physical machine, or virtualise using virtualbox/openvz/xen/vmware whatever you wish, the point is, you must have a fresh install(preferably) and a login prompt. 
Also, this was adapted from this ubuntu guide:the marvelous ubuntu guide. Once you're at a login prompt or at the shell, read on: 


All commands issued by root. If you must use sudo then do. I encourage it.
Setup the 'mess'(build) dir if you prefer but you can install python from anywhere.
Prepare the environment:
Prequisites from rpms

# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
# yum install zlib-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel ncurses-devel sqlite-devel readline-devel tk-devel php-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel atlas atlas-devel gcc-gfortran g++ git php php-devel wget screen mysql mysql-server mysql-devel libevent-headers

- accept all deps. 
- You need some of those things to have a not-only-barely-functional python interpreter. 
- from this point on it is recommended to perform all your work in screen. if you're not familiar with screen here's a good tutorial: the mighty screen. Basically it's a virtual terminal that keeps whatever stuff you do in it running even if your ssh session fails due to leet-isp-skills or alien crashes severing your fiber channels. Then when you reconnect you can re-attach to it and voila. it's as if you never left.

# mkdir -p /usr/local/build/

Python installation: cd to previously created dir, then:

# wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/Python-2.7.3.tar.bz2
# tar xjf Python-2.7.3.tar.bz2
# cd Python-2.7.3
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
# make && make altinstall

(the red word is very important)

Prequisites for pip (if you don't like distribute feel free to use your favourite):

# cd /usr/local/build/ 
# curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
# python2.7 distribute_setup.py

Pip installation:

# cd /usr/local/build/  
# curl -O https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py
# python2.7 get-pip.py

Proceed to prequisites for glastopf:

• pymongo:

# pip-2.7 install --upgrade pymongo

• numpy and other deps:

# pip-2.7 install numpy
# pip-2.7 install chardet sqlalchemy lxml beautifulsoup pyOpenSSL requests MySQL-python
# pip-2.7 install scipy (be warned: pip installs software from alpha centauri so expect *some* delays. also compiling can take a while.)

• antlr:

# cd /usr/local/build/
# wget http://www.antlr3.org/download/antlr-3.1.3.tar.gz
# tar xzf antlr-3.1.3.tar.gz
# cd antlr-3.1.3/runtime/Python
# python2.7 setup.py install

• SKLearn:

# cd /usr/local/build/
# git clone git://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn.git
# cd scikit-learn
# python2.7 setup.py install

• evnet:

# cd /usr/local/build/
# git clone git://github.com/rep/evnet.git
# cd evnet
# python2.7 setup.py install

Install and configure the php sandbox

# cd /usr/local/build/
# git clone git://github.com/glastopf/BFR.git
# cd BFR
# phpize
# ./configure --enable-bfr
# make && make install

take a look at your architecture and add this line to php.ini accordingly:

zend_extension = /usr/lib/php/modules/bfr.so

or

zend_extension = /usr/lib64/php/modules/bfr.so

Proceed with glastopf 

# cd /usr/local/build
# git clone https://github.com/glastopf/glastopf.git
# cd glastopf
# python2.7 setup.py install

if for some weird reason this doesnt work retry last command - i had issues due to some weird network problems or mirror issues. 

Create a directory that will serve as your glastopf honeypot root. anywhere you want. For example /usr/local:

# mkdir /usr/local/honeypot 
# cd /usr/local/honeypot

AND THEN : 

# glastopf-runner.py

but wait. it fails. that's because in the glastopf.cfg file that it sets up in this directory the group id doesn't exist. it may on debiant/ubuntu but not on centos. so change it to nobody and adjust other settings and you're set.

# screen glastopf-runner.py

It should look like something similar to this with the last line being Glastopf started and privileges dropped:

:D enjoy