To use anyRemote it needs to have any kind of bluetooth adapter or serial IR adapter. To use anyRemote over bluetooth connection it needs to install bluez (the official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack). You should probably install at least bluez-libs, bluez-libs-devel and bluez-utils packages.
To use anyRemote over IR connection it needs to install irda-util package.Also it needs to install automake-1.9 or newer.
To see on-screen help messages it needs to install dialog utility
Other software which could be helpful:
To make verification steps it is useful to have some terminal emulator, like Minicom or cu. I prefer cu for its simplisity. In FedoraCore distro cu can be installed from uucp package.
XAutomation package can be used for keyboard and mouse emulation.