My thanks to Benoit Mathieu for helping me with YAAFE

I must thank again Benoit Mathieu for helping me with the YAAFE installation. I was having a torrid time, spending almost 8 days installing UNIX (Ubuntu and then Fedora) and the various required extensions:

• HDF5 http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/>`_ version 1.8 or higher
• libsndfile http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/>
• libmpg123 http://www.mpg123.de/api/>
• liblapack http://www.netlib.org/lapack/>
• blitz++ http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/>
• argtable http://argtable.sourceforge.net/>

Users beware of the need to also install:

• SWIG
• python-devel
• c (g++) compiler
• Fortran (f90/f95) compiler
• cmake

For users running Windows OS, you can install VMWare Player to host a virtual UNIX OS.

I can now say I'm quite efficient in the use of UNIX - about which I've been very impressed. I now have a standalone dedicated UNIX (Red Hat Fedora 13) system, which is a joy to work on.

Now to enjoy some feature extracting!