All software packages can be installed via distribution package. swig-1.3 http://swig.org/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/swig/files/swig/swig-1.3.40/ Perl modules (via CPAN or distribution package) IO::Socket::SSL HTTP::Daemon::SSL RPC::XML Python modules m2crypto BUILDING ON UBUNTU The following is a complete list of packages required in order to build from git on Ubuntu (tested on version 10.04,11.04,12.04): autoconf-archive automake g++ git-core libio-socket-ssl-perl libhttp-daemon-ssl-perl librpc-xml-perl libssl-dev libtool python-dev swig libxmlsec1-dev BUILDING ON FREEBSD The following is a list of ports necessary to build from git on FreeBSD (tested on version 8.2, and 9.1): pkg-config xmlsec1 openjdk6 perl-5.14.2_2 automake-wrapper-20101119 autoconf-wrapper-20101119 autoconf-2.69 automake-1.12.3 apache-ant swig