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Re: Binaries for SLES10


From: Søren Hauberg
Subject: Re: Binaries for SLES10
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:00:37 +0200

tir, 20 10 2009 kl. 14:33 +0200, skrev Andreas Kuntzagk:
> > At my previous just I had to use SUSE as well, and getting Octave up and
> > running was not a particular joyful experience. SUSE is just not very
> > good at packaging basic scientific libraries, so you'll have to compile
> > a lot of stuff yourself from scratch.
> 
> Yeah, but for this I need to find out what libraries are missing and 
> where to get them.

I think the easiest approach is just to run ./configure and see what is
reported as missing.

> Unfortunately changing distro is not an option right now. This is a big 
> compute cluster (in production) and I can't start from scratch again. 
> For the next time what distro do you propose for scientific computing?

Yeah, I didn't expect that you could just change distro. I think Debian
is quite good at packaging everything you need, and I get the impression
that Fedora is also quite good, but I've never used it.

Søren



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