InstallingVisTrailsOnUbuntu

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)