CentOS Development Setup
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This page will only detail what's necessary to compile standard software you'll probably be using on a CentOS system.
I won't talk about editors, IDEs or anything like that. These are just packages that I've found useful and are required for several different software packages I've had to recompile.
yum install gcc-c++ rpm-build ncurses-devel autoconf automake libtool pkgconfig gtk+-devel alsa-lib alsa-lib-devel audiofile esound libICE-devel libSM-devel libtheora libtheora-devel libXrandr-devel libXrender-devel libXt-devel mesa-libGLU mesa-libGLU-devel SDL SDL-devel texi2html
