Miscellaneous Installs

• yum install yum-updatesd [I was surprised to have to install this, until I discovered that it doesn't work in Fedora 7, as of 8/31/2007. I have it disabled in System /Administration / Services until it works so I can run yum at the command line. I believe the auto-updater was installed by default in earlier Fedora releases -- I enabled update downloads in /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf]
• yum install HelixPlayer
• yum install HelixPlayer-plugin
• yum install RealPlayer
• yum remove kernel-alsa-module [obsolete - started requiring an unavailable FC5 kernel, preventing yum update from working]
• yum remove planetccrma-core [started requiring an unavailable FC6 kernel, preventing yum update from working]
• yum install proftpd [needed an ftp server]
• Installed VTK tarball [Visualization Tool Kit - for octaviz]
• Installed octaviz tarball [octave interface to VTK]
• yum install cmake [needed for VTK and octaviz installation]
• yum install referencer [digests PDF files and such; generates BibTeX files]
• yum install octave-devel [octave headers needed for octaviz install]
• Installed octplot tarball [handle graphics for Octave - activated by octplot_enable - works very well but freezes the machine repeatably when closing plot windows - saying octplot_disable and exiting Octave to close plots appears to be safe]
• yum install fltk-devel [needed by octplot]
• (Note that octave-graceplot is already part of octave-forge [yet another gnuplot alternative for Octave - activated by toggle_graceplot_use])
• yum install supercollider-devel [so `pkg-config -cflags libscsynth` can be used in makefiles]