I managed to get an instance running here on my localnet to play with, but it took a bit of butchering to even get it running at all.
I also managed to get at least the trollbox, and probably user voting to run as well.(haven't tried the user voting yet)
Within a couple days I'll begin to go through the scripts and other various files to get rid of the crypto-maniac.com "rewrite" specifics.
Maybe then once I'm certain everything works "ok", I'll setup a repository, and maybe then, "we" can both start working where crypto-maniac left off, and maybe even toss him a bit for his fine efforts, as this exchange is actually pretty cool, and very well featured compared to most of the other "open source" offerings available.
And I don't mean to sound nasty.....but it's almost pathetic that folks chose to lambast his fine efforts here at "hate central" rather than to step in and help.
Anyways to get the chatbox/trollbox running one has to run the chat server is a seperate proccess.
On Ubuntu you call it, using either a terminal on the server version or an xterm on the desktop version using:
sudo php -q /path/to/chat/server.php