Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 00:32 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: I am now at such cases for amd64 (dual core opterons) with OpenMPI (a parallelization support) and Amber (a molecular dynamics package), which I wish to compile with my installed intel fortran and c. I can't help with your problem,

Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 June 2007 at 09:31, Ross Boylan wrote: | On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 00:32 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: | I am now at such cases for amd64 (dual core opterons) | with OpenMPI (a parallelization support) and Amber (a | molecular dynamics package), which I wish to compile | with my installed

Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-23 Thread Francesco Pietra
--- Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 00:32 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: I am now at such cases for amd64 (dual core opterons) with OpenMPI (a parallelization support) and Amber (a molecular dynamics package), which I wish to compile with my installed intel

checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
In this early stage of lenny, using both amd64 and i386 for biochemical computation I preferred to stay at etch. Though, my machines - even the parallel amd64 one - are no typical server. That is, I need from time to time to install packages that are not on Debian distribution (or not GNU at all)

Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Francesco Pietra wrote: (1) Which the reason for removing checkinstall from etch, in view of my reasons above? http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/checkinstall/news/20060204T220817Z.html (2) How to remedy? Just by compiling on etch checkinstall from source? Or are

Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
Don: Thanks. Is the following a correct procedure for etch amd64? (modified from a recipe I found for sarge): (1) Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ etch-backports main contrib non-free (i.e., etch in place of sarge) (2) Add the following

Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Francesco Pietra wrote: Is the following a correct procedure for etch amd64? (modified from a recipe I found for sarge): (1) Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ etch-backports main contrib non-free (i.e., etch in

Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-22 Thread Francesco Pietra
Don: There is probably something wrong in the recipe I found for Sarge, or it does not apply to etch following my modifications. It I set (1) and (2) as below stated, apt-get update ends with: Failed to fetch http:/www.backports.org/debian/dists/etch-backports/Release.gpg Unable to connect to