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Specific packages needed for students to be able to run the webots program as well complete the excersizes can be installed with:
apt-get -y install xlibs-dev libpng2-dev mesag3 apt-get -y install ftp gnuplot rsync nano build-essential wget mutt
Then alien needs to be run on the redhat format webots rpm, to produce a webots*.deb.
This webots*.deb will probably depend on libstdc++*.deb. The specific version of the libstdc++ will depend on how old or recent the machine you ran alien on is. For this I recommend alien be ran on one of the cluster machines (after apt-get installing the necessary depended on packages). Otherwise, you could find that dpkg will refuse to install your webots*.deb due to missing libstdc++*.deb, and when you try to apt-get install the missing libstdc++, that it won't exist since it is depending on a version which is now obsolete. I went through this myself, exporting the carefully guarded obsolete libstdc++*.deb to each machine until I realized it was a fault with how/where alien was run.
To use the keyspan serial to USB converters you will need the following as well:
mknod /dev/ttyUSB0 c 188 0 mknod /dev/ttyUSB1 c 188 1 chown webots.webots /dev/ttyUSB0 chown webots.webots /dev/ttyUSB1
Note that all this is already done for you in the
Peter