LabPlot 1.5.1
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KDE Application for plotting and analysis of 2d and 3d functions and data.
Features see FEATURES.


Requirements:
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	* a Linux distribution with KDE >= 3.1 installed. 
		It should work on other UNIX systems with KDE >= 3.1 too.
	* For MacOSX support see README.MacOSX.
	* It may or may not work with cygwin on Windows operating systems, but this is not tested yet.
		(volunteers are welcome)

LabPlot contains following 3rd party software packages :
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* cephes			cephes/		cephes/COPYING
* netcdf 3.5.0			netcdf/		netcdf/COPYING
* audiofile 0.2.5		audiofile/	LGPL
* qwtplot3d 0.2.6		qwtplot3d/	qwtplot3d/COPYING
* texvc				texvc/		GPL

If available LabPlot will use the system libraries instead.

Install :
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offical supported platforms are :

SuSE 10.0
SuSE 9.3
SuSE 9.2
SuSE 9.1
SLES 9
Fedora Core 5
Fedora Core 4
Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 2
Fedora Core 1
RedHat 9
RHEL 4
RHEL 3
Mandriva 2006.0
Mandrake 10.1
Mandrake 10.0
Slackware 10.2
Slackware 10
(Solaris 10)	coming soon

For packages and any other platforms please check out the download page of LabPlot:
http://labplot.sourceforge.net/wiki?Download
If you compile LabPlot under any other system or have additional informations 
please send me a note. 

If you want to build a packages yourself use "LabPlot.spec" or "build" files under admin/ and/or
read the README.build-RPMS-as-user file.

Compiling:
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If you want to compile LabPlot yourself :

you need :
	* gcc 2.95 / 3.x or Intel C++ 9.0 compiler
	* KDE >= 3.1 with most KDE devel-packages
	* Qt 3.x + devel packages
	* libtiff-devel (may be part of the package libtiff)
	* libart_lgpl-devel
	* arts-devel
	
Additional recommended software (included libraries are only used if not available on the system) :

	* GNU Scientific Library (GSL)	(for histograms, regression, integration, fft ...)
	* ImageMagick & ImageMagick++ for image format handling
	* pstoedit for exporting to different formats
	* fftw 2 or 3 for fourier transform
	* qwtplot3d and OpenGL library for OpenGL 3D Plots (included)
	* Qt Script for Applications (QSA) for scripting functionality
	* netcdf library for support of netCDF data files (included)
	* audiofile library for support of audio files (included)
	* cdf library for support of CDF data files
	* jasper library for JPEG 2000 support
	* greek X fonts	(use greek-fonts.tar.gz or xfntgreek package of SuSE)

Then run "./configure --prefix=<KDEDIR> && make && make install" in the source directory and everything should
work fine. Maybe you have to tune some options of "configure". Please hae a look at the compile/build-files 
under admin/ for needful variables.
For enabling debug messages use "kdebugdialog" and select "all".

useful developing tools :
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	* kdevelop	: IDE
	* kate		: XML Editor for handbook
	* kbabel	: translation tool
	* distcc	: distributed compiling
	* ccache	: cached compiling

BUGS :
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	-> see TODO files

Finaly :
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Thanks to all the people that reported bugs and suggestions and/or provided translations !

Author :
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	Stefan Gerlach (gerlach@mbi-berlin.de)
