source: http://www.icodeya.com/2012/12/installing-sencha-touch-201-on-ubuntu.html I change a few confusing and wrong parts. (Thanks anyway, you-who-wrote-this-great-post) For this tutorial, I used the following Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric) Sencha CMD v3.0.0.250 Sencha Touch 2.0.1-gpl Apache Tomcat (I'm using Apache/2.2.20 with Tomcat 6) Be sure to download the Sencha Touch SDK and the Sencha Touch CMD, and be sure to download the ones for linux! According to some sources, Sencha Touch 2.1 is no longer using Sencha SDK Tools but using Sencha CMD instead as of writing time. You might want to read about it ! :D After downloading the 2 files. They're gonna look something like the screenshot below. The Sencha Touch SDK is a simple zip file, while the CMD is a runnable zip file. Step 1 Unzip Sencha Touch 2.0.1-gpl.war to /var/www/ folder. If you get a permission error, simply unzip it in it's current folder and do a sudo cp like the one below: sudo cp -r sencha-to