Re: a year later - CERN move to Centos - what are we doing?

[Arthur H. Edwards]

I have made one move to SL-7, and it hasn't been great. I live behind a
firewall that prevents me from raiding other RH-based repositories, so I
lost xmgrace in the process. Also, I could never find something as
simple as a periodic table (either gperiodic or kalzium). As a mostly
ubunut user, I was pretty disappointed in the package base. It seemd
that ubuntu had many more scientific packages than SL. The community, on
the other hand, was very helpful. Perhaps a move to CENTOS can bring
more packages. 

Art Edwards

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  Arthur H. Edwards
  edwards...@fastmail.fm

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016, at 08:09 AM, Tim Kanuka wrote:
> We have just started our migration to SL7x. We did make the call on
> whether to go with Centos or not for 7x. For me, the slightly greater
> ease of staying with SL for the migration; the minimalist elegance of the
> the SL website and support structure; and no experience at all with
> Centos outweighed any perceived benefits of switching. 
> 
> Interestingly, CERN has rolled their own Centos anyway.
> 
> Thank you, SL people. 
> 
> Tim Kanuka
> Canadian Light Source
> 
> From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov
> <owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov> on behalf of lejeczek
> <pelj...@yahoo.co.uk>
> Sent: January 12, 2016 5:15 AM
> To: Andreas Mock; SCIENTIFIC- LINUX- USERS@ FNAL. GOV
> Subject: Re: AW: a year later - CERN move to Centos - what are we doing?
> 
> There might be no need to be sad, I think.
> Simple principles should prevail - and if with such a change
> we will get bigger user base, more developers working more
> closely together, the same one Bugzilla for everything
> then.. it can only be better for the software, better for
> everybody. Especially when so much is shared already.
> Everything else, any differences can, should always be
> discussed then agreed upon, only if people are willing.
> bw.
> 
> On 12/01/16 09:51, Andreas Mock wrote:
> > Indeed a very interesting question, I will follow the answers.
> > I was and I am very happy with the work done in SL 6.x. So I'm sad
> > to see that there might be a change in direction.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Andreas
> >
> >
> >
> >> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
> >> Von: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-
> >> scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov] Im Auftrag von lejeczek
> >> Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Januar 2016 10:48
> >> An: SCIENTIFIC- LINUX- USERS@ FNAL. GOV
> >> Betreff: a year later - CERN move to Centos - what are we doing?
> >>
> >> hi everybody,
> >>
> >> I've wondered and got curious, what do you guys, gals think
> >> about that move?
> >> More importantly do you think it's a step we SL users should
> >> also consider?
> >> CERN mention there were talks between them, Fermilab - what
> >> are Fermilab plans with regards to future releases, with
> >> regards to SL in general? (Not much info on the website.)
> >> I personally am just about to trial a migration from SL7 to
> >> Centos. I'm thinking it's inevitable, am I wrong?
> >>
> >> best wishes.

Re: lyx/latex problems in SL6

[Arthur H. Edwards]

My problems are lyx-specific. I was able to get kile to work with latex
after I set an input variable, TEXINPUTS, with all of the directories
used, in my experience, with latex. When I try to use a REVTeX4
template, I receive the following error:

The layout file requested by this document,
revtex4.layout,
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX
class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation
for more information.
LyX will not be able to produce output.

The file then opens, and I can edit it. I just can't generate any output
from it. 

Art Edwards

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  Arthur H. Edwards
  edwards...@fastmail.fm

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015, at 07:52 AM, Bernhard Linseisen wrote:
> Dear Art,
> 
> I do not know about your experience with Lyx and TeX, so please forgive
> me for pointing out in very basic form.
> Just to be sure: Was it a .tex-file you tried to "compile" with Lyx or
> did you try to open a .dvi-file and convert it to a .pdf-file?
> 
> I do not know too much about Lyx, but from my knowledge with Kile and
> TeXniCenter I think they are not the best tools to open dvi-files. If
> you really have a .dvi-file which you want to export to a .pdf, try on
> your terminal/console with "dvipdf inputfilename.dvi
> outputfilename.pdf" (without the quotation marks, of course).
> 
> Cheers,
> Bernhard
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 18:00 -0700, Arthur H. Edwards wrote:
> > I'm running SL6 on a 64-bit machine. I have sudo privileges. Lyx is
> > installed, but it seems to have no latex configuration. It is not
> > finding .cls or .sty files when I try to build andyting from dvi to
> > pdf.
> > However, when I look at tex information under tools, it gives a list
> > that includes all of the .cls and .sty files it says are missing. 
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Art Edwards
> >