Hi,
isn't the fact that SL4 kernel is 2.6.X a problem?
The possibility of using SL4 would be great also for Manchester.
cheers
alessandra
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Steve Traylen wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:28:39AM +0300 or thereabouts, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> today we (at GR-03-HEPNTUA) tried LCG 2.4.0 installation on Scentific
>> Linux 4. As expected installation failed because of rpm conflicts. The
>> problems were related mostly to deprecated packages and unresolvable
>> dependencies (because of strict version requirements).
>>
>> The fact is that the scientific linux team is doing a great job and the
>> new version seems much better (and to date) than the previous one
>> (things like gigabit are working out of the box now!). I wonder if there
>> is work being done to support installation of LCG on SL4. Are there any
>> experimental rpm repositories we can play with?
>
> It would interesting if you could post a list of the hard RPM dependency
> errors you hit. My suspicion would be that most of them of not needed
> anyway. The likelihood is that the LCG code stands a very good chance
> of just working as is on SL4.
>
> Steve
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Dimitris
>
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