Ubuntu 9.04
First, we will install necessary packages from the repository 
    1.sudo apt-get install build-essential 
    2.sudo apt-get install automake libtool 
    3.sudo apt-get install gfortran libreadline-dev 
    4.sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libswscale-dev libxml2-dev 

Next, we will install all the external libraries that RTFTR depends on for its functionality. RTFTR uses the following libraries: 
    fftw-3.2.1 : ftp://ftp.fftw.org/pub/fftw/fftw-3.2.1.tar.gz 
    boost-1.37 : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=8041&release_id=637761 
    vigra1.6.0 : http://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/vigra/vigra1.6.0.tar.gz 
    octave-3.0.3 : ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/octave-3.0.3.tar.gz 
    ffmpeg-0.5 : http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.5.tar.bz2 
    opencv-1.1pre1 : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22870&package_id=16948 

Download all the library tarballs from their respective project pages 

1.Installation of FFTW library: 
    a.$ ./configure --enable-shared --enable-openmp && make 
    b.$ sudo make install 
2.Installation of Boost library 
    a.$ ./configure && make 
    b.$ sudo make install 
3.Installation of Vigra library 
    a.$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make 
    b.$ sudo make install 
4.Installation of Octave library 
    a.$ ./configure --prefix=/usr && make 
    b.$ sudo make install 
    c.create a new file named "/etc/ld.so.conf.d/octave-i386.conf" and add the following line 
            /usr/lib/octave-3.0.3 
5.Now let us verify the installations of libraries, until now, using the following commands 
    a.$ ls /usr/lib/libfftw3* 
    b.$ ls /usr/lib/libboost* 
    c.$ ls /usr/local/lib/libvigraimpex* 
    d.$ ls /usr/lib/octave-3.0.3/lib* 
6.Installation of ffmpeg library 
    a.$ ./configure --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-swscale --prefix=/usr && make 
    b.$ sudo make install 
    c.$ ldd ./ffmpeg		{ to verify the installation } 
7.Installation of opencv library 

The location of header files for libavcodec of ffmpeg library, used by opencv to read AVI video files, had changed in ffmpeg-0.5 
(Instead of location /usr/include/ffmpeg/avcodec.h, the header file is placed in /usr/include/libavcodec/avcodec.h). So to fix this 
issue, use the following command as a patch 

    $ cd opencv-1.1.0/ 

    $ sed -e 's/ffmpeg\/avcodec.h/libavcodec\/avcodec.h/' -e 's/ffmpeg\/swscale.h/libswscale\/swscale.h/' -i configure 

    Now execute the configure script as 

    $ ./configure -prefix=/usr 

    Make the following changes to 
    opencv-1.1.0/otherlibs/highgui/cvcap_ffmpeg.cpp 

    #include <libavformat/avformat.h>        // old was <ffmpeg/avformat.h> 
    #include <libavcodec/avcodec.h>       	// old was <ffmpeg/avcodec.h> 
    #include <libswscale/swscale.h>		// old was <ffmpeg/swscale.h> 

    Now compile the source 

    $ make 
    $ sudo make install 
8.Installation and compilation of RTFTR 
    a.$ ./configure && make 
    b.$ ./rtftr