LabPlot 1.6.0
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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 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 3.6.2			netcdf/		netcdf/COPYING
* qwtplot3d 0.2.6		qwtplot3d/	qwtplot3d/COPYING
* texvc 20050202		texvc/		GPL
* qhull 2003.1			qhull/		qhull/COPYING
* liborigin 20070926		liborigin-20070926	GPL

LabPlot will use the system libraries if available instead.

Install :
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All supported platforms can be found on the download page.
To get packages please check out this page at
http://labplot.wiki.sourceforge.net/Download
If you compile LabPlot under any other system or have additional informations 
please send me a note. 

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 of the KDE devel-packages
	* Qt 3.x + devel packages
	* libtiff-devel (may be part of the package libtiff)
	* libart_lgpl-devel
	* arts-devel
	
Highly recommended software :

	* GNU Scientific Library (GSL)	(for histograms, regression, integration, fft ...)
	* ImageMagick & ImageMagick++ for image format handling
	* Qt Script for Applications (QSA) for scripting functionality
	* liborigin >= 20070926 for ORIGIN OPJ file support
	* qwtplot3d and OpenGL library for OpenGL 3D Plots (included)
	* netcdf library for support of netCDF data files (included)

Additional software for special features :

	* pstoedit for exporting to different formats
	* fftw 2 or 3 for fourier transform
	* hdf5 library for support of HDF5 data files
	* audiofile library for support of audio files
	* cdf library for support of CDF data files
	* R >= 2.2.0 for additional functions and statistic analysis
	* 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".

You can use the included LabPlot.spec to build a RPM package or the "build" files under admin/.
Please read the README.build-RPMS-as-user file.
configure-options can be added in the %build section.

useful developing tools :
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	* kdevelop	: IDE
	* kate		: XML Editor for handbook
	* kbabel	: translation tool

BUGS :
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	-> see BUGS files

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

