This is just a very basic API for now. We hope to flesh it out soon. The basic dependencies are covered by pip, so you can use:
apt-get install python-pip
pip install btrdb
If you want to use the UUID resolver, you will additionally need to install sqlalchemy with the correct drivers for your database. For MySQL this means you need
apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev
apt-get install python-dev
apt-get install python-mysqldb
apt-get install python-sqlalchemy