-- Le (On) 2009-11-09 -0800 à (at) 11:22:16 Chris Tooley écrivit (wrote): --
> Urs Beyerle wrote: > >Hi Al, > > > >Al Neumann wrote: > >>[...] > >>Just not really sure what SL has been doing... i.e: Where are those real > >> > >>scientific apps!!? > >>Somewhat dismayed at the use of "scientific" in current SL. > >>Al > > > >I know that's confusing. And it's the most frequently ask question about > >SL -> https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/general1 > > > >Q. Where are all the 'science' programs? > >Q. Is Scientific Linux better for scientific applications? > > > >A. This linux distribution is called Scientific Linux because it is made > >by scientific labs, for scientific labs and universities. It is not > >named Scientific Linux because it has the largest collection of > >scientific programs. It was named back when it was small, and only the > >scientific labs were using it. > > > >Cheers, > > > > Urs > > Hello Al, > > I would suggest enabling the dag repos to get some of the applications > other distros have, including stellarium. > > This can be accomplished by editing /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo, and changing > enabled=0 > to > enabled=1 > Hello, I'd rather suggest to use : yum --enablerepo=dag install stellarium as long ago I enabled dag.repo and I had a lot of trouble because yum and yum-conf were updated with dag'ones which are completely different than SL ones. > <snip> -- Best regards, Robert FRANCHISSEUR ____ Apollo_gist :-)_______________________________________________ | Robert FRANCHISSEUR | | Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique - C.N.R.S. | | Equipe "R.A.M.S.E.S." - UPMC - Tour 45-55 3ème 315C | | Boite 99 - 4, place Jussieu F-75252 PARIS CEDEX 05 FRANCE | | Phone : +33 (0)1 44 27 73 87 fax : +33 (0)1 44 27 62 72 | | e-mail : robert at lmd . jussieu . fr http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr | -------------------------------------------------------------------