bob is fairly simple to run once you have downloaded one of the archives (tar.gz, bz2 or zip) and extracted it there are two scripts included. . ."bob.sh" is for unix based systems (Mac OS X, Linux, etc) and "bob.bat" is for ms windows based systems.
./bob.sh
bob.bat
-f [filename]
this will allow bob to run off a user supplied spring configuration file.
-d
this will list what midi devices are availible to bob.