LabPlot 1.4.0
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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 recent KDE (version >= 3.0) installation

LabPlot contains following 3rd party software packages :
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* cephes			cephes/		Free
* netcdf 3.5.0			netcdf/		netcdf/COPYRIGHT
* audiofile 0.2.5		audiofile/	LGPL
* qwtplot3d 0.2.4beta		qwtplot3d/	LGPL

If available LabPlot will use the system libraries instead.

Additional recommended software:
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	* GNU Scientific Library (GSL)	(for histograms, regression,integration,fft ...)
	* ImageMagick & ImageMagick++
	* pstoedit
	* fftw 2 or 3
	* cdf library for support of CDF data files
	* jasper for JPEG 2000 support
	* greek X fonts	(use greek-fonts.tar.gz or xfntgreek package of SuSE)
(	* GRASS		(for GRASS plots))	only for testing	)

Install :
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offical supported platforms are :

SuSE 9.2
SuSE 9.1
Fedora Core 3	
RedHat 9
Mandrake 10.1
Mandrake 10.0
Gentoo 2004.2
Xandros 2.0

For any other platforms please look at the download page of LabPlot:
http://labplot.sourceforge.net/download.html
If you can compile LabPlot under any platform please send me a notice and any bug you might found. 

If you want to build a RPM package yourself use one of the spec files under admin/ and
read the README.build-RPMS-as-user file.

Compiling:
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you need :
	* gcc 2.95 / 3.x or Intel C++ 8.0 compiler
	* almost all of the KDE 3.x devel-packages

./configure --prefix=<KDEDIR> && make && make install

For a working installation you need to specify the KDEDIR with configure.

Common errors:

1. "/usr/bin/ld cannot find -lart_lgpl_2"
	-> install libart_lgpl-devel package 
2. "Couldn't find mcopidl" during ./configure
	-> install arts-devel package

Please look at the compile-files under admin/ for needful variables.

enable debug messages : use kdebugdialog

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

Finaly:
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Thanks to all the people that reported bugs and suggestions !

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