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): autoconf-archive automake g++ git-core libgmp3c2 libgmp3-dev 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 7.3): math/gmp devel/autoconf-archive security/xmlsec1