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 cvs g++ subversion

• install YARP

  mkdir ~/YARP
  cd ~/YARP
  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@yarp0.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/yarp0 login
  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@yarp0.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/yarp0 co -P yarp2
  cd yarp2
  cmake .    (or ccmake .)
  make
  make test

add these lines to /etc/bash.bashrc:

  PATH=$PATH:/home/vislab/YARP/yarp2/bin/
  YARP_DIR=/home/vislab/YARP/yarp2/

• install OpenCV

  mkdir ~opencv
  cd ~opencv
  svn co https://opencvlibrary.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/opencvlibrary/tags/latest_tested_snapshot
  ccmake .
  make
  sudo make install