@item A reasonably new version of the GNU C++ compiler: EGCS 1.1, GCC 2.95.2 or
newer. Check out @uref{ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/, the gcc site}.
-@item Python (version 1.5 or newer; not 2.1.x)
+@item Python (version 1.5 or newer).
Check out @uref{http://www.python.org, the python website}.
-@item GUILE 1.4 or newer, check out
+@item GUILE (version 1.4 or newer).
+Check out
@uref{http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html,the GUILE webpage}.
Version 1.4 is recommended for better performance.
@item pktrace, [OPTIONAL], needed for generating PostScript Type1
-fonts. Get it from @uref{http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/pktrace/}
-
-@item autotrace-0.27a, [OPTIONAL], needed for generating PostScript Type1
-fonts. @uref{http://autotrace.sourceforge.net}.
-
-@item MetaPost [OPTIONAL] needed for generating PostScript Type3 fonts. Please
-note that tetex-0.4pl8 (included with Red Hat 5.x) does not include
-@file{mfplain.mp}, which is needed for producing the scalable font
-files.
-
-If you don't have MetaPost and don't want to use PostScript output, then
-edit @file{mf/GNUmakefile}, removing the line saying @code{PFA_FILES=}.
-
-
+fonts. Get it from @uref{http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/pktrace/}. You
+will need to install some additional packages to get pktrace to work.
@end itemize
For compilation on a Red Hat system you need these packages, in addition
to the those needed for running: glibc-devel, gcc-c++, libstdc++-devel,
-guile-devel, flex, bison, texinfo, tetex-devel, groff,
-libgr-progs.
+guile-devel, flex, bison, texinfo, groff.
+
@subsection LinuxPPC