On 03/21/14 14:45, Ali Corbin wrote: >> >> I run a Red Hat Enterprise clone, Scientific Linux 6.5 . It is >> stodgy (equivalent to Fedora 12, a 4 year old base kernel) - but >> it will get security updates until 2023, supported by Fermilabs >> even if Red Hat goes away (or worse, gets bought by Larry >> Ellison). The problem is, almost all recent third party not-in- >> the-standard-distro packages want later major revs of libraries >> with new features; I can't compile or run those because the >> dependencies collide. >> > Are the packages open source? If so, you might be able to fetch the > source rpm and repackage it for rhel/centos/sl. Even better, someone > might have already done this for you. > I run centos, and usually find multiple choices for packages that > aren't in centos' distro when I search in pbone.
I'll just add that anyone running RHEL or its clones should be aware of the EPEL repository. This is the first place I look if I don't find what I want in the normal CentOS repository. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL On my system I have 105 epel packages. Among them are: amavisd-new apcupsd ckermit clamav dia gnuplot44 gv keepassx lyx postgrey thunderbird-lightning viewvc wxPython xpdf xscreensaver CentOS + EPEL brings some of the benefits of Fedora, but without those pesky bloodstains. galen -- Galen Seitz gal...@seitzassoc.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
