repositories/apps

[Dave]

Some of my regular apps are:

gretl;
lyx; and
qgis

None are in the repositories. Some of them cannot be installed
because the dependencies are not available in the repository (gtk+
>2.4.0). Is there any chance of including these in the repositories
in the future? All are in the fedora repository, I believe, but I
can't see how to add that repository to the source repositories in the
add/remove software panel.

[Thomas Uphill]

Your mileage may vary, the Fedora versions may install, they may not.  RHEL6 has different versions than Fedora 13/14 so some things might work.  You might be better off trying to use EPEL which is specific to RHEL6.  EPEL is at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL 

For example, the version specific to puias6 and i386 is at: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/i386/repoview/

Hope that helps,

T.

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[JP]

Hi Dave,

lyx we already have - it is in addons repo and if you don't have it
already you can easily add it with

yum install puias-addons

after which you should be able to install lyx. For the other two we
usually stick scientific/computational stuff into computational repo.
gretl is easy enough to rebuild - I've added it to the computational 6
repo - you'll have to add it to your machine with

yum install puias-computational

and then you should be able to do yum install gretl. I'll also take a
stab at qgis but that one has more dependencies and I am not sure all
will compile for rhel6 (gee, it is already getting old...).

Josko P.

[Dave Postles]

Many thanks. Only LyX is in there, as far as I can see. I did get
some other stuff from RPMforge which works o.k.
Thanks again,
Dave Postles

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[Dave Postles]

Oh, that's really helpful - thanks. Gretl is really useful for Gini
coefficients and Lorenz curves for income distribution.
On the OOo issue, yes, LibreOffice has cleaned up the code. I believe
that Fedora now comes with LibreOffice. I wouldn't be surprised if
OOo becomes defunct as Oracle withdraws its support.
Thanks again,
Dave

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