Chico2 desktop machine configuration

Ubuntu 8.04

Hard disk partitioning

size	mountpoint	filesystem
498GB	/	ext3
2GB		swap

machine name: chico2 user name: vislab

operations performed after the standard installation

• system update
• enabled nvidia drivers
• removed the package network-manager-gnome.
• manually configured the internet connection (/etc/network/interfaces):

  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback
  
  auto eth1
  iface eth1 inet static
  address 10.10.1.52
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  network 10.10.1.0
  broadcast 10.10.1.255
  gateway 10.10.1.254

• install some required packages:

  sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libace-dev cmake libgsl0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libglademm-2.4-dev