Before installing or using MANTIS, there are several programs that you'll need to have installed. You should be able to find these packages in most Linux Distribution's package system, and should install them before continuing.

• Subversion: you can use subversion to check out the latest unstable code, or to contribute to MANTIS if you have developer access. This is not required.
• SCons: SCons is a python based build system, with some cool features. It's used to build the MANTIS kernel and MANTIS applications.

(TODO) are there more?