None with this procedure. If you decide to start from source code, you will need an old version of the Qt library (no more than 3.3.8) as well as libtiff4-dev and libgsl0-dev (already installed for PhyloBayes).

apt-get install libqt3-mt-dev libtiff4-dev libgsl0-dev

Our old debate lurks its head again: pre-compiled binary or source code? Source code allows for optimal compilation but in this case, it depends on a rather old version of Qt and some mods of the source code. In addition, the binary distribution has documentation and demo material to help a newbie user; therefore, the binary path was chosen. However, I'll put together a small compilation how-to using my notes for anyone that might be interested

Here is the procedure to install Spotfinder:

• The archive with the executable binary was downloaded from its web location in /home/bioubuntu, decompressed and the resulting folder moved in /opt/bio/sources.

• This folder should belong to root and its permissions set to 755.

% sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bio/sources/Spotfinder321Linux
% sudo chmod 755 /opt/bio/sources/Spotfinder321Linux

• You only need to make Spotfinder available to all:

% sudo ln -s /opt/bio/sources/Spotfinder321Linux/Spotfinder /usr/local/bin/spotfinder

• To add Spotfinder in the Impilo application menu, you have to edit the Xfce4 configuration file:

% sudo xfce4-menueditor /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml

• The three items to add are :
  • Item: Launcher
  • Name: TM4 Spotfinder
  • Command: spotfinder