CentOS /RHEL are based on a version of fedora. CentOS 6 is based on Fedora 13 or 14, so a package from Fedora 23 is no more use to me than an Ubuntu package.
I'll have to continue using the Windows version of PSPP until I upgrade to CentOS 7 someday. -Alan On 2/24/2016 11:30 PM, John Darrington wrote: > I may have understood this wrong, but I thought that CentOS was a "downstream" > of Redhat Fedora. I see that PSPP 0.8.5 (the latest release) is already > packaged > for Fedora - See https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/pspp > > So presumably it ought to be in CentOS too. Or have I misunderstood > something? > > > J' > > > I think it's no more complex than PSPP having library requirements that > CentOS 6 will never meet (without developer-level efforts). We can also > see that PSPP's requirements are accelerating away from CentOS 6. Here > are the details: > > *./confgure on pspp-0.8.5 produces:* > > > *configure: error: The following required prerequisites are not > > installed.** > > **You must install them before PSPP can be built:** > > ** glib 2.0 version 2.32 or later (or use --without-gui)* > > > > [amead@cow3 pspp-0.8.5]$ rpm -qi glib2 > > Name : glib2 Relocations: (not > relocatable) > > Version : 2.28.8 Vendor: CentOS > > Release : 4.el6 Build Date: Wed 15 Oct > > 2014 01:33:45 PM CDT > > Install Date: Thu 11 Dec 2014 09:14:21 AM CST Build Host: > > c6b8.bsys.dev.centos.org > > Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: > > glib2-2.28.8-4.el6.src.rpm > > Size : 8047174 License: LGPLv2+ > > Signature : RSA/SHA1, Fri 17 Oct 2014 03:02:33 PM CDT, Key ID > > 0946fca2c105b9de > > Packager : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org> > > URL : http://www.gtk.org > > Summary : A library of handy utility functions > > Description : > > GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects > > such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, > > portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality > > as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system. > > > -- Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. President, Talent Algorithms Inc. science + technology = better workers +815.588.3846 (Office) +267.334.4143 (Mobile) http://www.alanmead.org I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe... functions on fire in a copy of Orion. I watched C-Sharp glitter in the dark near a programmable gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like Ruby... on... Rails... Time for Pi. --"The Register" user Alister, applying the famous "Blade Runner" speech to software development _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
