Scientific Linux is a Linux release from Fermi National Labs. Basically Scientific Linux equates to red Hat Enterprise Linux and I believe that the release numbers are supposed to be equivalent (e.g. Scientific Linux 4.3 <=> Red Hat Enterprise 4.3). Subversion does not come as a standard package (at least through Scientific Linux 4.3) so I downloaded and installed Subversion from source code.
I've been installing and using Timba on Scientific Linux 4.0 through 4.3 with gcc 3.4.3 through 3.4. I have build the prerequisite software, aips++, and Timba from source code with no unexpacted nasties appearing. There is one small thing to note with aips++. The aips++ glish scripting language uses Tcl/Tk for GUI building. Scientific Linux does not come with Tcl/Tk header files; so you need to download and install Tcl/Tk 8.3 or 8.4 and install a version of Tcl/Tk with header files that correspond with available libraries.
Otherwise basically just follow the standard install procedures in the recommended sequence and you should have no problems.
Nov 30 2006: since my version of numarray had to be upgraded to get Oleg's PyNode code operational on my system I decided to go all the way and upgraded everything to Oleg's CentOS equivalents.
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blitz-0.9.tar.gz numarray-1.5.2.tar.gz sip-4.5.tar.gz QScintilla1-1.71-gpl-1.7.tar.gz PyQt-x11-gpl-3.17.tar.gz PyQwt-4.2.2.tar.gz (including patched qwt-4.2 inside that archive) fftw-3.1.2.tar.gz
As Oleg says, the build was exteremely straightforward. (Note: I didn't install the latest cftisio as that would meant re-compiling aips++ - something I didn't feel up to!)
Note: On Scientific Linux, at least, using a Timba svn version number greater than 4297 causes python2.3.4 to crash. Installing python2.3.5 or greater gets the system working again. Also, to build Timba versions > 4337, it appears that it is necessary to have
libtool 1.5.22
installed.
Note: After an upgrade to Scientific Linux 4.4 (compiler is gcc 3.4.6) and an installation of python2.4 in /usr/local/bin, things work with the above list of packages.