Desktop Setup

Minimum Packages Required

By default, install the development packages.

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

1. Editing

aspell-en emacs openoffice firefox 

1. Mathematics

R blas-devel gnuplot 

1. 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

1. Graphics

opencv SDL-devel cairo-devel 

1. 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

1. IO

usbutils