Install instructions for QVarStar You need Qt libraries and Perl to compile this software. You also need qmake tool which is usually shipped in qt-devel package in various distributions. If you don't have one in your distribution you can download qmake from Troll Tech site: http://www.trolltech.com/qt/ Instalation is straightforward: 1. ./configure 2. make 3. make install At configure step you can use --prefix parameter to change default installation prefix. Default prefix is /usr/local. You can use this parameters if you have perl and/or qmake installed in some strange locations to inform configure script about this locations: --with-perl --with-qmake You can find new version of QVarStar software here: http://www.eclipsedminds.org/qvarstar/