InstallingVisTrailsOnUbuntu
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When installing VisTrails on a Debian-based linux distribution (any variant using the apt package management system) the following commands must be issued as the root user or preceeded by sudo
Install Graphviz:
- apt-get install graphviz
Install Python:
- apt-get install python
Install Python Extensions:
- apt-get install python-xml
- apt-get install python-soappy
Install Qt 4.2.0 or above:
- You can get the open source version for all platforms here
- After downloading, you need to build the Qt library:
* Run configure then make
Install PyQt4:
- Note: The Python bindings for QT4 provided by the apt-get installation work only for QT 4.1
- Download sip 4.5.2 here
* sudo python configure.py * sudo make; make install
- Download PyQt4.1.1 here
* sudo python configure.py * sudo make; make install
Install MySQLdb (Python library allowing MySQL databases access):
- apt-get install python-mysqldb
Install SciPy and NumPy
- sudo apt-get install python-scipy (python-numpy is a dependency that is installed automatically by apt)