Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents
Downloading Gnutrition
Setting up MySQL
Running Gnutrition for the First Time

Gnutrition is a program designed to produce a detailed nutritional analysis of the human diet.

Downloading Gnutrition

Gnutrition is is freely available at SourceForgeIt is released under the GNU General Public Licence, see the file LICENCE for details.

Requirements

Gnutrition requires the following packages:

Table 1-1. Requirements

PackageURLRedHat Package
Python Scripting Languagepython.orgpython
GNOME Environmentximian.comgnome-libs
Python-to-GNOME librariesftp.daa.com.aupygnome,pygtk
MySQL Database servermysql.commysql,mysql-server

This list looks daunting, but all of these packages should be standard on modern Linux systems, but you may have to install MySQL separately.