These are rough notes on how to compile Eigensoft on Ubuntu Jaunty.
Create a location to build the code:
Warning: /tmp is for temporary files, and any files & directories you create there will be remove upon some subsequent reboot.
cd /tmp;
mkdir EIGEN;
cd  EIGEN;
Get the Eigensoft source code:
wget  http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/alkes-price/files/EIG3.0.tar.gz;
tar xzvf EIG3.0.tar.gz;
Install required dependences:

This is a brief HOWTO on compiling OSRA, (Optical Structure Recognition) on Ubuntu Jaunty. To quote the OSRA home page, OSRA is
… is a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical structures, as they appear in journal articles, patent documents, textbooks, trade magazines etc., into SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification – see [...]