Packages required for running the server: mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient apache or apache2 or other webserver php4-cgi (or php4 if running apache 1) Packages required for compilation: g++ libgl-dev libglu-dev (these are virtual packages; one example of packages that provide these are: mesag-dev xlibmesa-glu-dev ) libmysqlclient-dev Packages required if you change makefiles: autoconf automake1.7