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% Part   : Preparing Your Workstation
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% Chapter: Installation
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% $Id: installation.tex 6191 2010-08-02 02:36:14Z al $
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This chapter describes tools you need to have installed in your CentOS
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workstation before using CentOS Artwork Repository.
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\section{Subversion}
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Subversion is a version control system, which allows you to keep old
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versions of files and directories (usually source code), keep a log of
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who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like CVS, RCS or
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SCCS.\footnote{More documentation about Subversion and its tools,
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including detailed usage explanations of the svn, svnadmin, svnserve
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and svnlook programs, historical background, philosophical approaches
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and reasonings, etc., can be found at
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\url{http://svnbook.red-bean.com/.}} 
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To install Subversion client tools in your workstation you can use the
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following command:
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\begin{quote}
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yum install subversion
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\end{quote}
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\section{Inkscape}
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Inkscape is a GUI editor for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format
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drawing files, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator,
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CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Inkscape features include versatile shapes,
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bezier paths, freehand drawing, multiline text, text on path, alpha
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blending, arbitrary affine transforms, gradient and pattern fills,
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node editing, SVG-to-PNG export, grouping, layers, live clones, and
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more.
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Note that Inkscape is not inside CentOS Distribution, so you need to
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configure a third party repository like RPMForge or EPEL to install
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Inkscape.  Installation of a third party repositories inside CentOS
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Distribution is described in the following URL:
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\begin{quote}
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\url{http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories}
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\end{quote}
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Once you have configured the third party repository you can install
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Inkscape using the following command:
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\begin{quote}
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yum install inkscape
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\end{quote}
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\section{ImageMagick}
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ImageMagick is a free software suite for the creation, modification
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and display of bitmap images. It can read, convert and  write images
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in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be
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changed, various effects can be applied, images can  be rotated  and
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combined,  and text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves can
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be added to images and stretched and rotated.
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To install ImageMagick in your workstation you can run the following
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command:
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\begin{quote}
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yum install ImageMagick
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\end{quote}
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\section{Netpbm}
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Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including
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conversion of images between a variety of different formats.  There
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are over 300 separate tools in the package including converters for
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about 100 graphics formats.
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To install Netpbm in your workstation you can run the following
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command:
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\begin{quote}
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yum install netpbm\{-progs\}
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\end{quote}
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\section{Syslinux}
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Syslinux is a suite of bootloaders, currently supporting DOS FAT
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filesystems, Linux ext2/ext3 filesystems (EXTLINUX), PXE network boots
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(PXELINUX), or ISO 9660 CD-ROMs (ISOLINUX).  It also includes a tool,
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MEMDISK, which loads legacy operating systems from these media.  The
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package \texttt{syslinux} provides the programs \texttt{ppmtolss16}
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and \texttt{lss16toppm} which are used to produce Anaconda Prompt
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images. The \texttt{ppmtolss16} Perl program also includes the file
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format specification.
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To install Syslinux in your workstation you can run the following
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command:
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\begin{quote}
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yum install syslinux
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\end{quote}
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\section{GNU Image Manipulation Program}
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GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is used to manipulate images
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inside CentOS Artwork Repository.  
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To install GIMP in your workstation you can run the following command:
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\begin{quote}
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yum install gimp
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\end{quote}
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\section{GNU Core Utilities}
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The GNU core utilities are a set of tools commonly used in shell
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scripts.
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To install the GNU core utilities in your workstation you can run the
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following command:
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\begin{quote}
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yum install core-utils
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\end{quote}
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\section{\LaTeX}
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\LaTeX\ is a document preparation system implemented as a macro
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package for Donald E.  Knuth's \TeX\ typesetting program. The \LaTeX\
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command typesets a file of text using the \TeX\ program and the LaTeX
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Macro package for \TeX.  To be more specific, it processes an input
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file containing the text of a document with interspersed commands that
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describe how the text should be formatted. 
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To install \LaTeX\ in your workstation you can run the following
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command:
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\begin{quote}
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yum install tetex-\{latex,fonts,doc,xdiv,dvips\}
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\end{quote}