On 6/17/10, 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.
There is a place that builds backports like that for you. Also Ubuntu has them listed by default for you, for debian you have to go look for them, and I am not sure that you have as much for amd64 as for i386 in debian. > > 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. why ? >There is no technical help in my > institution. get it the modern way online, just let people know when you are stuck, but first search for your problem already asked specifically. > > 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] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
