steps to run canto as a local user (all software installed in user home directory)
after these steps, python will be installed to ~/python and canto to ~/canto

1. install python 3.3. or later to user home - 3.4.1 used in this example
(after unpacking and cd'ing to python source):
./configure --prefix=~/python && make && make install

2. install feedparser
(don't remember how this goes, but should be installed to ~/python/lib/python3.4/site-packages somehow, probably by u$
Feedparser requires a certain module, but I don't remember the name. Feedparser installation complains about it.

3. install canto with the locally installed python
instead of the usual setup.py install do:
~/python/python3.4.1/bin/python3.4 setup.py install --prefix=~/canto

4. run canto:
* you must set PATH to ~/canto/bin so that canto-remote can be found (this might not be necessary in later canto versions)
* you must set PYTHONPATH to your local python installation so feedparser can be found

these are run from ~/canto/bin:
PATH=$PATH:~/canto/bin PYTHONPATH=~/canto/lib/python3.4/site-packages/ ~/python/python3.4.1/bin/python3.4
canto-daemon &

PATH=$PATH:~/canto/bin PYTHONPATH=~/canto/lib/python3.4/site-packages/ ~/python/python3.4.1/bin/python3.4 canto-curses