For the Qpid exploration, I setup a Red Hat Enterprise Linux machine. I did all the following as root:

1. Downloaded the Qpid tar.gz from http://qpid.apache.org/download.html (http://www.apache.org/dist/qpid/0.5/qpid-0.5.tar.gz)
2. Unzipped the file.

   gunzip qpid-0.5.tar.gz
   

3. Untarred the file.

   tar -xvf qpid-0.5.tar
   

4. I decided to run the C++ broker and so I needed to build it.
5. Before I could do that though, I had to have all the right packages to build, so I ran:

   yum install boost-devel e2fsprogs-devel pkgconfig gcc-c++ make autoconf automake ruby libtool help2man doxygen graphviz
   

   of which the help2man and graphviz were not available.

6. To get help2man, I downloaded the tar.gz from here: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/help2man/help2man-1.36.4.tar.gz
7. Unzipped the file

   gunzip help2man-1.36.4.tar.gz
   

8. Untarred it

   tar -xvf help2man-1.36.4.tar
   

9. I then cd'd into that directory and ran

   ./configure --prefix=/root/Qpid/qpid-tools
   

   which then died with:

   configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required
   

10. So, I installed the gettext-1.05.tar.gz perl module by downloading it, unzipping, unpacking, cd'ing into gettext-1.05 and running:

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install
    

11. Went back to the help2man directory and tried it again (it succeeded this time)
12. Now run make

    make install
    

    which seemed to work OK.

13. Now for graphviz, I went to http://www.graphviz.org and downloaded the .rmp file and let RHEL open it with the package installer automatically.
14. I clicked on 'Apply' and installed it OK.
15. Because I wanted to explore using the clustering, I installed openais using yum by executing

    yum install openais
    

16. In order to get the XML exchange working, I need to install xerces by going to http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/ and downloading the latest version for 64 bit linux (tar.gz).
17. I unzipped it, untarred it
18. I then wanted to install xqilla and went to http://sourceforge.net/projects/xqilla/files/ to get the source.