On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 10:31 AM John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:48:19AM -0500, Alan Mead wrote: > > What Linux distro would I need to install to have pspp packaged (or have > the requirements packaged so the tarball woudl compile cleanly)? Because > I have six Linux machines running CentOS 6 and 7 and none of them will > run psppire. > > I was hopeful that Fedora would support it and I'd be willing to install > Fedora, but last time I checked (quite a while ago) they weren't > maintaining a package for the spreadsheet widget. I'm not dying to > install an apt-get-based Linux, just to run PSPP... > > > Ssw is very easy to build and install. It requires gtk+ but once you > have that installed there are no other dependencies. I presume CentOS is like > most other distros; they will accept package contributions from > volunteers?
Centos is RHEL minus the Red Hat trademark, and RHEL is a downstream of Fedora, so getting PSPP and SSW into Fedora would eventually get it into Centos. I don't know whether Centos accepts package contributions directly; I suspect not.
