Please note that SocExplorer is still under development, so things are supposed to move, it can fail to build sometimes or be buggy.
Note also that we recently change from Qt4 to Qt5 so all the new SocExplorer code will be written for Qt5.
All the next steps can be distribution dependent SocExplorer development is done on Fedora 19 and 20, but is should work with any other one, feedback are welcome!
qmake-qt5
make
sudo make install
hg clone https://hephaistos.lpp.polytechnique.fr/rhodecode/HG_REPOSITORIES/LPP/INSTRUMENTATION/SocExplorer SocExplorer
cd SocExplorer
qmake-qt5
make #note that to speedup the make step you can use "make -j N" to parallelize on N process(replace N with the number of cores you have).
sudo make install
#this doesn't install the registers xml description file.
mkdir -p ~/.SocExplorer/config
cp ressources/Grlib.xml ~/.SocExplorer/config/Grlib.xml
Now you should have a working SocExplorer, you can start to install plugins here or start write your own.