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Emoncms runs ontop of a webserver and a database, the installation instructions for windows are here...

http://emoncms.org/site/docs/installwindows

Thanks for responding.  That's what I was doing.  I had some difficulty with the instructions for installing on Windows - I assume there has been a level change at Wamp since they were written.

I guess I wrongly expected to find an executable and assumed that the source code would need to be compiled to create one.  Should I use the source code as it stands, (interpreting the instructions about directory names to suit)?

EmonCMS is written in PHP, so cannot be precompiled. PHP is closely bound to the web server, Apache, and it is Apache in fact that executes the PHP script. What you download is the scripting language, not strictly speaking source code. But note what the installation instructions say about the version to use. Redis and timestore do require compilation as I think pre-compiled versions of those aren't available, and that's the reason you are advised not to use a version later than 6.9.

I've just switched from Windows XP to Ubuntu, the last version of Wampserver I had was 2.4 (32-bit), which works fine for me under XP.

OK thanks - I understand.  If I had understood that at the outset I would have saved a lot of time.  Is there a primer somewhere with basic information like that?

Anyway, thanks for your help.

Yes, I think it's called the manual for PHP.  http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php is the introduction., and a very basic tutorial is http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.firstpage.php   If you try any of the examples,  you need to put them in your "www" directory. (You can have subdirectories).

There are endless PHP tutorials available.