Hi all, I recently came across this issue [1], and Glyph commented about official packaging. We're using Ubuntu Hardy and created packages for Twisted 8.2.0, as Ubuntu LTS is our platform of choice. Those packages were accepted by their official maintainer (Matthias Klose, doko@debian.org) and uploaded to Ubuntu Jaunty and Debian unstable. Sadly, the official packages now use python-central (>=0.6.11), which isn't available in Hardy, so we'll have to stick to the packages in our PPA [2] In any case, we'll update them when Twisted 9.0 is released, but I think it would be better to upload them to a PPA repository officially approved by the Twisted team. Anyway, it would be great to have recent packages of Twisted for distributions that offer some kind of long term support contracts (Ubuntu, RHEL, etc.), but that tend to get a bit outdated. Cheers. 1 - http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3102 2 - https://launchpad.net/~fluidinfo/+archive/ppa