Some tips from Pedro Morin for Fedora Core and Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Kubuntu.

MAINTENANCE

@@ -257,7 +257,57 @@ script "config.guess"):
   b) SuSE 10.0: Trouble with the FORTRAN compiler. Try running
      F77=gfortran ../configure
 
-3) sparc-sun-SunOS:
+3) Some other Linuxen:
+  a) Fedora Core
+    i) Install the following packages (and dependencies)
+
+	xorg-x11-devel
+	blas
+	gcc-gfortran
+
+       This can be done with the command (as root):
+
+	# yum -y install xorg-x11-devel blas gcc-gfortran
+
+       You will also need the packages  make, gcc
+       which usually come by default if you have a "workstation" installation.
+
+    ii) install gltools (everything as root):
+	# cd /usr/local
+	# tar vxfz /path/to/gltools-2-4.tar.gz
+	# cd gltools-2-4
+        edit the Makefile change the line
+		LIBRARY_PATH=-L/usr/X11/lib
+	to
+		LIBRARY_PATH=-L/usr/X11R6/lib 
+
+  b) Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Kubuntu
+    i) Install the following packages (and dependencies)
+
+	make
+	gcc
+	g77
+	mesa-common-dev
+	libc6-dev
+	libx11-dev
+	libxext-dev
+	atlas3-sse2-dev
+
+       This can be done with the command:
+
+	sudo apt-get install make gcc g77 mesa-common-dev libc6-dev libx11-dev\
+	libxext-dev atlas3-sse2-dev
+
+    ii) Install gltools
+		cd /usr/local
+		sudo tar vxfz /path/to/gltools-2-4.tar.gz
+		cd gltools-2-4
+	edit the Makefile change the line
+		LIBRARY_PATH=-L/usr/X11/lib
+	to
+		 LIBRARY_PATH=-L/usr/lib
+
+4) sparc-sun-SunOS:
   a) For the xdr-Routines, the library -lnsl seemed necessary.
   b) In our case, "configure" did not automatically recognize the canonical
      system triplet. Calling "configure --build=sparc" worked.

README

@@ -458,6 +458,7 @@ V. Some platform dependent notes and examples
 
 0) Compilation under SuSE Linux:
 --------------------------------
+
 a) SuSE 9.2: We used MesaGL and a BLAS lib included in our
    distribution. If MesaGL is not found, "configure" will also try "GL". The 
    alberta_util lib needed "-lg2c" to process FORTRAN code properly.
@@ -466,8 +467,62 @@ b) SuSE 10.0: More trouble with the FORTRAN compiler. Try running
    F77=gfortran ../configure
 
 
-1) Intel's  "math core library" libmkl:
-------------------------------------
+1) Compilation under Fedora Core
+--------------------------------
+
+a) Install the following packages (and dependencies)
+
+xorg-x11-devel
+blas
+gcc-gfortran
+
+This can be done with the command (as root):
+
+# yum -y install xorg-x11-devel blas gcc-gfortran
+
+You will also need the packages  make, gcc
+which usually come by default if you have a "workstation" installation.
+
+b) install gltools (everything as root):
+# cd /usr/local
+# tar vxfz /path/to/gltools-2-4.tar.gz
+# cd gltools-2-4
+edit the Makefile change the line
+LIBRARY_PATH=-L/usr/X11/lib
+to
+LIBRARY_PATH=-L/usr/X11R6/lib 
+
+2) Compilation under Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Kubuntu
+-------------------------------------------
+a) Install the following packages (and dependencies)
+
+make
+gcc
+g77
+mesa-common-dev
+libc6-dev
+libx11-dev
+libxext-dev
+atlas3-sse2-dev
+
+This can be done with the command:
+
+sudo apt-get install make gcc g77 mesa-common-dev libc6-dev libx11-dev\
+libxext-dev atlas3-sse2-dev
+
+b) Install gltools
+cd /usr/local
+sudo tar vxfz /path/to/gltools-2-4.tar.gz
+cd gltools-2-4
+edit the Makefile change the line
+ LIBRARY_PATH=-L/usr/X11/lib
+to
+ LIBRARY_PATH=-L/usr/lib
+sudo make 
+
+
+3) Intel's  "math core library" libmkl:
+--------------------------------------
 Make sure to also link with libguide, this can be achieved by the
 following configure switches:
 
@@ -482,7 +537,7 @@ or
 	setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/intel/mkl61/lib/32
 
 
-2) g77-compiled libblas on Linux, but Intel's ifc compiler for ALBERTA
+4) g77-compiled libblas on Linux, but Intel's ifc compiler for ALBERTA
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 NOTE: this probably doesn't make to much sense, but you can
 try the following
@@ -490,7 +545,7 @@ try the following
 	--with-blas-name="blas -lg2c"
 
 
-3) SunOS (Solaris), using libsunperf:
+5) SunOS (Solaris), using libsunperf:
 ----------------------------------
 Find out about the location of libsunperf, then using Sun's f77
 compiler you need the following switches:
@@ -502,14 +557,14 @@ However, with gcc the following might work:
 	--with-blas-lib=LOCATION --with-blas-name="sunperf -lfui -lfsu -lsunmath"
 	
 
-4) Alpha AXP with Compaq's extended math-library libcxml:
+6) Alpha AXP with Compaq's extended math-library libcxml:
 ------------------------------------------------------
 The following might work (UNTESTED!!!)
 
 	--with-blas-lib=LOCATION --with-blas-name="cxml -lcpml"
 
 
-5) MAC OS X using the Accelerate library:
+7) MAC OS X using the Accelerate library:
 --------------------------------------
 The following switch has been reported to work: