Francesco, I have a few recommendations to accomplish what do you want...
A test "independent" system to probe your old software in squeeze sooner or later you have to do that... A virtual machine to use some software (MPICH2)... A chroot same purpose... On a test "independent" system do the mixed up of lenny and squeeze to have the software do you want or need and test the combination (I have this one) (lenny+squeeze+sid+experimental) obviously some combination crash and possibly do you need some knowledge to repair it or start again your test system with lenny and do another mix... Do you choose Debian for stability or because you have the latest version of the software?... If you want another distribution because you have the latest version of the software then you don't need really a strong stability... One last important point... If you really want stability then keep it that way: in stable world you don't have NEW software until the next release... Good luck On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Francesco Pietra <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello: > I am at amd64 lenny for scientific computation (i.e. no x-system) and > i386 squeeze for the desktop with graphics. > > For lenny, yesterday I needed MPICH2 instead of openmpi already > installed. No deb package for lenny, only for squeeze. I compiled > MPICH2 for lenny. > > However, the parallelized package that requires support from MPICH2 > requests python2.6, which is unavailable in lenny. Installing that > from squeeze, even with apt-pinning is too risky for me, and I find > too difficult to compile python. There is no technical help in my > institution. > > One can suggest: move to squeeze for scientific computation. Not a > solution: the packages for chemical computation are not updated > frequently, particularly non-commercial ones. Key packages for me do > not run on squeeze, only on stable. > > When such problems arise, I am tempted to inquire if there is another > distribution of linux that overcomes such problems. Is there one? > > Thanks > francesco pietra > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship. Carl Sagan (Contact) Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds-and fanatics. It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. Cassius J. Keyser Jaime Ochoa Malagón Arquitecto de Soluciones Cel: +52 (55) 1021 0774 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
