Re: Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence | Quanta Magazine

2023-01-05 Thread Götz Waschk
he various HEP collaborations do not seem to be discussing this issue.  Sorry for the intrusion. Hi Yasha, DESY is still using FORM in the theoretical physics group, we have even bought work group servers with lots of RAM to run it, on SL7 of cause. Regards, Götz Waschk -- G

Re: Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

2021-10-28 Thread Götz Waschk
Am 28.10.21 um 18:09 schrieb Andrew C Aitchison: On Thu, 28 Oct 2021, Götz Waschk wrote: Am 28.10.21 um 15:41 schrieb Troy Dawson: On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 4:56 AM Götz Waschk <mailto:goetz.was...@desy.de>> wrote:     Am 26.10.21 um 04:27 schrieb Patrick J. LoPresti: > On

Re: Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

2021-10-28 Thread Götz Waschk
Am 28.10.21 um 15:41 schrieb Troy Dawson: On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 4:56 AM Götz Waschk <mailto:goetz.was...@desy.de>> wrote: Am 26.10.21 um 04:27 schrieb Patrick J. LoPresti: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 5:45 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia mailto:nka...@gmail.com>

Re: Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

2021-10-28 Thread Götz Waschk
20 Apr 9 2020 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5.12 -> libQt5Core.so.5.12.8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5519624 Apr 9 2020 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5.12.8 Regards, Götz -- Götz Waschk° Phone: +49 33762 77169 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Re: google-chrome

2021-10-23 Thread Götz Waschk
have seen this. The solution was rpm -e google-chrome-stable . You could try to run Google Chrome in an EL8 singularity container, e.g. based on CentOS8, AlmaLinux8 or Rocky Linux 8. Regards, Götz -- Götz Waschk° Phone: +49 33762 77169 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron

Missing kernel security update

2021-07-26 Thread Götz Waschk
soon. Regards, Götz Waschk -- Götz Waschk° Phone: +49 33762 77169 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY ° E-Mail: goetz.was...@desy.de Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen Germany smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: In search for a SL replacement - almalinux

2021-05-06 Thread Götz Waschk
the disabled. Larry Linder On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 17:17 +0200, Götz Waschk wrote: Am 06.05.21 um 18:07 schrieb Larry Linder: In Mint when you remove / install / remove an application it erases all files on all mounted disks. Dear Larry, you keep mentioning this critical bug, have you reported

Re: In search for a SL replacement - almalinux

2021-05-06 Thread Götz Waschk
upstream Debian or does it relate to a badly written third-party package? Regards, Götz -- Götz Waschk° Phone: +49 33762 77169 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY ° E-Mail: goetz.was...@desy.de Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen Germany smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: sudo fix for SL6

2021-01-27 Thread Götz Waschk
t rebuilt by SL. However, you might get it from Oracle in the future, watch this page: https://yum.oracle.com/whatsnew.html Regards, Götz -- Götz Waschk° Phone: +49 33762 77169 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY ° Fax:+49 33762 77216 Platanenallee 6

Re: CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-09 Thread Götz Waschk
.ch/event/898285/contributions/4015535/attachments/2120621/3569557/CERN_Site_Report_-_HEPiX_Autumn_2020_v2.pdf Regards, Götz -- Götz Waschk° Phone: +49 33762 77169 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY ° Fax:+49 33762 77216 Platanenallee 6

Re: cernlib on SL7 ?

2020-11-21 Thread Götz Waschk
please be aware that this port is no longer supported, my colleagues who were involved in it have already retired. Regards, Götz Waschk -- Götz Waschk° Phone: +49 33762 77169 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY ° Fax:+49 33762 77216 Platanenallee 6

Re: AppImage under SL 7

2020-08-27 Thread Götz Waschk
t install this software on SL7, it is simply too old. A container solution like Singularity would have problems as well, as there is a certain kernel dependence. I can report from my own experience, that a container based on Ubuntu 20.04 and Qt5 will still not run on SL7. The only way to run it woul

Re: gcc 5.4.0 on EL 7

2020-04-27 Thread Götz Waschk
re Then as user, run it: % flatpak run com.calibre_ebook.calibre Regards, Götz -- Götz Waschk° Phone: +49 33762 77169 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY ° Fax:+49 33762 77216 Platanenallee 6° E-Mail: goetz.was...@desy.de 15738 Zeuthen