packages needed for atom (on a new Mandrake 10.0 distro) Note that the version is not always the latest, and the latest doesn't always work. I installed them in this order: swig 1.13.3 www.swig.org python 2.3.4 python.org (only because Mandrake's install misses some development subdirs) glut 3.7 http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/GLUT/glut3.html (in theory this is on SGI as well, but google found this first) fix the libGL refs in linux/Glut.cf to match your system, on mine it was /usr/X11R6/lib follow directions in linux directory you have to install yourself, copying the .so's to /usr/lib and the .h's to /usr/include PyOpenGL 2.0.1.07 http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/ sip 4.0rc4 http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/sip/download.php PyQt-x11-gpl-3.1.2 http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/download.php Numeric Python 22.0 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369&package_id=1351 Python Imaging Library 1.1.4 http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ you need to add these lines at the beginning of _imagingft.c : #include #include FT_FREETYPE_H