For those innocent people who do not know Google App engine, it is a platform which lets you host your application on Google’s infrastructure. In short your code just touches the hardware which no one else, but Google’s engineers have seen. So it allows you to scale your application as you grow big.

Google app engine is pretty straight to use on almost every platform as its supports Linux, Mac OS, Windows. However some folks face issues getting it running on Linux or particularly on Ubuntu as this is the favorite distro of Linux users. Follow the steps below to install and run Google app engine on Linux.