When using plucker-build, I get error: ... SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfc' in file /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyPlucker/helper/doc_compress.py on line 23, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details It's because ü (umlaut) character, so please insert # -*- coding: latin1 -*- line to the beginning of helper/doc_compress.py helper/prc.py