Installation documentation's being written right now.
We've had RPMs available in the past, and I'm hoping Jonathan will continue making them. Debian packages, too.
Installation's more complicated than you might think. The user might have Oracle or Postgres installed already, for instance. Oracle doesn't provide packages of any variety. PG users have to have source available to add the PG 'contrib' intarray indexing stuff used by sitewide search.
Could most of the work be done by scripts? Probably, but not by simple scripts. If someone wants to volunteer to take a stab at writing installation scripts they should feel free to step forward and be counted. Probably not until after the AOLserver/driver source tarball's made...
