Thread: Kusu Build Prerequisites

Project Kusu depends on the following (and devel) packages to be present on your system:

• rpm 4+
• rpm-build 4+
• python 2.3.4+
• gcc 4.1.1+
• sqlite 3.3+
• pysqlite 2.3.3
• cmake 2.4.6 (get it from EPEL: i386 | x86_64)
• newt 0.52.2 (needed for snack.py)
• parted 1.8.2
• pyparted 1.8.5
• cpio 2.6 (or patched 2.7)
• util-linux 2.13 (for losetup)
• pam 0.99+
• readline 5+
• tcl-devel 8+
• libxml2-devel 2.6.26+
• ncurses-devel 5+
• e2fsprogs 1.39+

If you are building Kusu on Fedora Core 6, RHEL 5 or CentOS 5, you can install Development Tools and Development Libraries which carry the above prerequisite packages except cmake. You can use yum to do this:

Code:

$ yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
$ yum groupinstall 'Development Libraries'

To run the tests you need nose. We recommend first installing EasyInstall. Then, to install nose:

Code:

$ easy_install nose

We also recommend installing iPython:

Code:

$ easy_install ipython

cmake install EPEL

Code:

# wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
# yum install cmake

easyinstall install EPEL

Code:

# yum install python-setuptools