Desktop Setup

Distribution Setup

We support three main Linux distributions (CentOS, Fedora, ubuntu), but you need to maintain some security configuration and packages.

CentOS 5.2

Install the 64bit packages selecting development and latex packages.

1. Update the yum repository

scp mada0:/etc/yum.repost.d/Ruby-Media.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
scp mada0:/etc/yum.repost.d/Rlang.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/

1. Update distribution

yum update -y

1. Several packages

yum install -y R

yum install -y eruby eruby-devel eruby-libs ruby ruby-devel ruby-docs ruby-irb ruby-libs ruby-mode ruby-racc ruby-rdoc ruby-ri ruby-tcltk rubygem-rake rubygems subversion-ruby

yum install -y compat-db compat-db compat-gcc-34 compat-gcc-34-c++ compat-gcc-34-g77 compat-glibc compat-glibc compat-glibc-headers compat-libf2c-34 compat-libgcc-296 compat-libstdc++-296 compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-33 compat-readline43

1. Setup IP tables

scp mada0:/mada/server/setup/setup/iptables /etc/sysconfig/iptables

1. Setup services correctly

yum install -y chkconfig
scp mada0:/mada/server/setup/setup/setup.serv /root/setup.serv

for a in `grep "3:on" setup.serv  | cut -d0 -f1`; do chkconfig --level 3 $a on;  done
for a in `grep "3:off" setup.serv | cut -d0 -f1`; do chkconfig --level 3 $a off; done
for a in `grep "4:on" setup.serv  | cut -d0 -f1`; do chkconfig --level 4 $a on;  done
for a in `grep "4:off" setup.serv | cut -d0 -f1`; do chkconfig --level 4 $a off; done
for a in `grep "5:on" setup.serv  | cut -d0 -f1`; do chkconfig --level 5 $a on;  done
for a in `grep "5:off" setup.serv | cut -d0 -f1`; do chkconfig --level 5 $a off; done

1. Setup automount

mkdir /mada
unalias cp
cp -f mascd1:/etc/auto.master mascd1:/etc/auto.mada /etc/
service autofs restart

Minimum Packages Required

By default, install the development packages.

In addition, for fedora,centos,RHEL use "yum install <packages>" (for ubuntu use apt-get <packages>) to install the following packages:

Editing

aspell-en emacs openoffice firefox 

Mathematics

R blas-devel gnuplot 

Development

PyQt ant bison boost-devel ctags cscope cvs doxygen 
eruby-devel gcc gcc-c++ gcc-gfortran gcc-java fftw-devel ruby ruby-devel rubygems
vim-enhanced valgrind python-devel m4 flex bison cmake qt4

Graphics

opencv SDL-devel cairo-devel 

Compatiblity (Install most of the compatibility libraries)

compat-db compat-gcc-34 compat-gcc-34-c++ compat-gcc-34-g77 
compat-glibc compat-glibc compat-glibc-headers compat-libf2c-34 
compat-libf2c-34 compat-libgcc-296 compat-libstdc++-296 
compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-33

IO

usbutils