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LabPlot 1.5.1

KDE Application for plotting and analysis of 2d and 3d functions and data. Features see FEATURES.

Requirements

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• a Linux distribution with KDE >= 3.1 installed.

  It should work on other UNIX systems with KDE >= 3.1 too.

• For MacOSX support see README.MacOSX.
• It may or may not work with cygwin on Windows operating systems, but this is not tested yet.

  (volunteers are welcome)

LabPlot contains following 3rd party software packages : #######################################################

• cephes cephes/ cephes/COPYING
• netcdf 3.5.0 netcdf/ netcdf/COPYING
• audiofile 0.2.5 audiofile/ LGPL
• qwtplot3d 0.2.6 qwtplot3d/ qwtplot3d/COPYING
• texvc texvc/ GPL

If available LabPlot will use the system libraries instead.

Install :
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offical supported platforms are :

SuSE 10.0
SuSE 9.3
SuSE 9.2
SuSE 9.1
SLES 9
Fedora Core 5
Fedora Core 4
Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 2
Fedora Core 1
RedHat 9
RHEL 4
RHEL 3
Mandriva 2006.0
Mandrake 10.1
Mandrake 10.0
Slackware 10.2
Slackware 10
(Solaris 10) coming soon

For packages and any other platforms please check out the download page of LabPlot: http://labplot.sourceforge.net/wiki?Download If you compile LabPlot under any other system or have additional informations please send me a note.

If you want to build a packages yourself use "LabPlot.spec" or "build" files under admin/ and/or read the README.build-RPMS-as-user file.

Compiling

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If you want to compile LabPlot yourself :

you need :

• gcc 2.95 / 3.x or Intel C++ 9.0 compiler
• KDE >= 3.1 with most KDE devel-packages
• Qt 3.x + devel packages
• libtiff-devel (may be part of the package libtiff)
• libart_lgpl-devel
• arts-devel

Additional recommended software (included libraries are only used if not available on the system) :

• GNU Scientific Library (GSL) (for histograms, regression, integration, fft ...)
• ImageMagick & ImageMagick++ for image format handling
• pstoedit for exporting to different formats
• fftw 2 or 3 for fourier transform
• qwtplot3d and OpenGL library for OpenGL 3D Plots (included)
• Qt Script for Applications (QSA) for scripting functionality
• netcdf library for support of netCDF data files (included)
• audiofile library for support of audio files (included)
• cdf library for support of CDF data files
• jasper library for JPEG 2000 support
• greek X fonts (use greek-fonts.tar.gz or xfntgreek package of SuSE)

Then run "./configure --prefix=<KDEDIR> && make && make install" in the source directory and everything should work fine. Maybe you have to tune some options of "configure". Please hae a look at the compile/build-files under admin/ for needful variables.
For enabling debug messages use "kdebugdialog" and select "all".

useful developing tools :
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• kdevelop : IDE
• kate : XML Editor for handbook
• kbabel : translation tool
• distcc : distributed compiling
• ccache : cached compiling

BUGS :
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-> see TODO files

Finaly :
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Thanks to all the people that reported bugs and suggestions and/or provided translations !

Author :
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Stefan Gerlach (gerlach@mbi-berlin.de)