Desktop Setup

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