On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 01:46 +1100, Mark Abraham wrote: > > Jussi - I'm trying to compile the packages myself since the pre-made > > RPM's don't seem to install the libraries needed. Furthermore, the LAM > > RPM would constantly complain about not being able to find gcc-g77 - a > > package found in CentOS4 but not CentOS5 (it's now referred to as > > compat-gcc-34-g77 - the names don't agree so rpm complains). > > So that's why you can force RPM to do things when you do happen to know > better that it does.
Forcing RPM to do things it shouldn't do is not a very bright idea. Also never trust RPMs you found somewhere on the internet, often they do very stupid and unsafe things. RPMs in e.g. Fedora are quite safe, since they adhere to a strict package policy, which is controlled. Anyway, when there are already built, guaranteedly safe RPMs for your distribution, please use them. Besides, LAM has been obsolete for some years now, you should use OpenMPI instead, which implements e.g. full MPI2. And you can find LAM also already in the distribution, you just have to install the lam-devel package to be able to compile against it. > >I've found that it's often much less of a headache if you > > can find the source and start from scratch (this is the FreeBSD child in > > me talking). Not really, since that way a) you have no idea what software has been installed and where b) upgrading software is a pain in the ass If you use the distribution packages you don't have to worry about anything. Compile software yourself *only if* you want to use some proprietary compiler (e.g. Intel), or you want to use some switches in the compilation the RPMs haven't been compiled with. And even if you do compile stuff yourself, it's often easier to take the SRPMs and edit the spec file to make it use the compiler & options you want it to instead of manually compiling & installing the software from the source tar files. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Jussi Lehtola, FM, Tohtorikoulutettava Fysiikan laitos, Helsingin Yliopisto [EMAIL PROTECTED], p. 191 50623 ------------------------------------------------------ Mr. Jussi Lehtola, M. Sc., Doctoral Student Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gmx-users mailing list gmx-users@gromacs.org http://www.gromacs.org/mailman/listinfo/gmx-users Please search the archive at http://www.gromacs.org/search before posting! Please don't post (un)subscribe requests to the list. Use the www interface or send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't post? Read http://www.gromacs.org/mailing_lists/users.php
