Re: Tips on switching to Oracle Unbreakable Linux

2010-03-25 Thread Troy Dawson
Michael Mansour wrote: ... I'm confused as to what you're asking. If you'd like to pay someone for supporting your Linux distribution, then maybe SL have a donation system? No. We do not have a donation and/or payment system for Scientific Linux. We have no plans for implementing a donation

Which version support?

2010-03-25 Thread madhusona
Dear Users Am planning to install scientific Linux for my new laptop HP Dv6 - 2129el (Intel Core i5 430M). Which version is good? and x86_64 or i386 which one i have to choose. -- with regards, B.Madusudhanan,

Re: Please consider addition of gnuplot42

2010-03-25 Thread Steve Traylen
any comment? On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Steve Traylen steve.tray...@cern.ch wrote: Hi,  I've users who wish to have gnuplot42 on SL5 (and4)  These are some packages here I've done:  http://cern.ch/straylen/rpms/gnuplot42/  which are designed to not interfere with the existing

Re: Which version support?

2010-03-25 Thread Steven J. Yellin
I've never put linux on a laptop, but the latest version of Scientific Linux is 5.4, and the Intel Core i5 Processor i5-430M of your laptop has 64 bit architecture, so if it were up to me, I'd try Scientific Linux 5.4 x86_64. Steven Yellin On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, madhus...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Which version support?

2010-03-25 Thread Urs Beyerle
On 03/25/2010 07:31 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote: I've never put linux on a laptop, but the latest version of Scientific Linux is 5.4, and the Intel Core i5 Processor i5-430M of your laptop has 64 bit architecture, so if it were up to me, I'd try Scientific Linux 5.4 x86_64. If you have

Re: Please consider addition of gnuplot42

2010-03-25 Thread Troy Dawson
OK, first problem. This requires wxGTK, which is not in Scientific Linux. Is that an important part? Can it be removed as a dependancy? Do we want to also put that into SL? Troy Troy J Dawson wrote: Hi Steve, Sorry for not getting back to this. I think it looks ok. I am goign to put it into

Re: Clean SL 5.4 Install and Anaconda Disk Partitioning Madness

2010-03-25 Thread Brent L. Bates
Thanks for all the suggestions. Anaconda still did some rearranging, but I eventually figured out what I needed to do to get what I wanted. I had to use `Edit' to set the starting and ending cylinders as well as use the Primary Partition check box. I had to use `Edit' for all the

Re: Please consider addition of gnuplot42

2010-03-25 Thread Steve Traylen
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Troy Dawson daw...@fnal.gov wrote: OK, first problem. This requires wxGTK, which is not in Scientific Linux. Is that an important part?  Can it be removed as a dependancy? Do we want to also put that into SL? Doh, I never thought to check that it actually

Re: Missing 32 libraries in added packages on SL5.4 x86_64

2010-03-25 Thread Troy Dawson
Vladimir Belov wrote: Hello. I have SL 5.4 x86_64 system installed. Recently I tried to compile program which requires FFTW library. I have fftw3-3.1.2-5.el5.1 (and corresponding -devel) installed from the SL repository. 64-bit build was perfect and 32-bit failed due to missing libraries. I

sth about terminal

2010-03-25 Thread DreamCatcher
Hello everyone, Yesterday when I was test a newly installed program I force to close the terminal as it was in a statu waiting for my next operation.Then a problem comes up, when I turn on the terminal again It was not what it should be as [u...@hostname]:#~or somthing like that, instead it

Re: Please consider addition of gnuplot42

2010-03-25 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 3/25/2010 14:43, Steve Traylen wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Troy Dawsondaw...@fnal.gov wrote: OK, first problem. This requires wxGTK, which is not in Scientific Linux. Is that an important part? Can it be removed as a dependancy? Do we want to also put that into SL? Doh, I

Re: Which version support?

2010-03-25 Thread Garrett Holmstrom
On 3/25/2010 14:00, Urs Beyerle wrote: If you have less or equal 4 GB of RAM, I would go with i386 instead of x86_64. Because of browser plugins (flash, java) and javaws. While I can't say anything about javaws, the 64-bit Flash plugin from Adobe and the 64-bit OpenJDK from SL worked just